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Lauren Ko, UNT Libraries software development unit supervisor, works on harvesting and uploading content for the Digital Projects
Lab. The Cyber Cemetery, an area of the Digital Projects Lab, keeps an archive of deceased government websites for public access. Cur-
rently, Ko is working on an "End of Term" harvest for the Digital Projects Lab.
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The dead are living on, at least in the
LINT Library. Through Cyber Cemetery,
LINT is workingto preserve dead websites
so they can still be used.
Established in 1995, the Cyber
Cemetery is part of ONT's Digital
Library, and is home to an archive of
federal government websites no longer
operating and removed from the Internet.
According to the website, the Cyber
Cemetery features topics in government
and websites that support I 'NTs curric-
ulum. It is a free service available even to
those outside of LINT.
"There is nothing like the LINT Cyber
Cemetery," said Jesse Silva, head of govern-
ment documents for LINT Libraries. "It is
a great public service LINT is providing
to the community."
The process of archiving websites is
called crawling, similar to taking an inter-
active photograph. When a website is
about to expire, LINT is contacted, and
the website is crawled and archived so it
can be preserved.
While other services throughout the
country and web archive, LTNT's program
features only federal government websites.
In the mid-2000s. the National Archives
and Record Administration asked that
the Cyber Cemetery become an affiliate.
"We recognized thatthe Internet wottld
be the primary source of government
contact," said Mark Phillips, assistant
dean of the Digital Library. "The Cyber
Cemetery preserves what may go away,
and opens all new areas of scholarship
when it comes to research and how these
websites reflected their time."
External links, search bars and videos
embedded in archived sites may not always
work, but the archived sites provide a
glimpse into the past and show the date the
website was captured, and when it expired.
"As a government information librarian,
it is my job to acquire and preserve govern-
ment information," Silva said. "Online, sites
are vulnerable and can be pulled at any
time. The Cyber Cemetery is a safeguard
to make sure the information is preserved."
The Cyber Cemetery is completely
nonprofit and funded by LINT Libraries.
The exact cost of the operating the Cyber
Cemetery is not known, and many people
are involved in operating it, Phillips said.
"It is just a phenomenal tool LINT
provides," Silva said. "LINT students
should be proud that their university is at
the forefront of archiving websites tech-
nologies, and the huge impact our Cyber
Cemetery plays."
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Scene: North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 2012, newspaper, October 26, 2012; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291775/m1/2/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.