It’s Open Government Week this week, which is a time for governments all over the globe to (re)commit to transparency, accountability, and open engagement with the public. And while there has been a lot of news centered around social media and...
Helping Government Agencies Comply with the New OPEN Data Act
by
George van Rooyen on
March
07,
2019
in
Social Media,
OpenRecords,
social media archiving,
government websites,
Records Management,
governments,
pagefreezer,
WARC,
social media monitoring,
records,
OPEN Data Act,
Web ARChive
The United States’ Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act was signed into law on January 14, 2019. This landmark piece of legislation means that government departments and agencies must comply with a new set of rules...
What is WARC and Why is it Important?
by
Sylva on
August
21,
2018
in
OpenRecords,
digital archiving,
FOIA,
Public Records Law,
Compliance,
WARC
A Brief History of The Internet Archive
For over 20 years, The Internet Archive has built a library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts preserved in digital form, through the use of WayBack Machine. Over this period of time, it has...
