In June 2009, Columbia was awarded a grant from the A.W. Mellon Foundation to:
- harvest web content for human rights organization web sites
- archive that content for the future
- provide access to that content within the content of a Human Rights Portal, which would also integrate access to other electronic and print resources in the area of human rights
- build a semantic layer over the portal's content to allow for enhanced retrieval, navigation and interoperability
Columbia is using the services of the Internet Archive to harvest and store access copies of selected human rights websites, while we build local indexes and access systems that interoperate with Internet Archive and other relevant sources. We will also ingest copies of harvested web sites into our Fedora long-term digital archive and explore questions relating to the long-term preservation and content migration of web content.
The project also encompasses harvesting and making accessible through Internet Archive websites in selected other domains, e.g., historic preservation and Columbia University websites.
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Grant proposal
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