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How do you collect a website?
NSW Government produces many important records that document the social and political history of our state. The Library has a long history collecting physical information about our government and providing links to NSW websites to the Pandora project but in mid-2014 the Library began harvesting NSW government websites on a regular basis .
The State Library uses a platform and tools provided by Archive-It - based on the same software used by Internet Archive.
The initial harvest of NSW Government websites was part of a pilot project to explore the potential for domain harvesting as a tool for capturing government information.
The harvest successfully covered information from government departments and ministries including annual reports and the NSW Budget Papers (1988-2016). Altogether a total of 2.6TB of data was collected covering over 61 million documents.
You can explore the full collection of NSW government websites that have been archived here.

Archive-IT NSW web harvest collection data
The Library's continuing implementation of a new collection management system will enable the ingestion of digital content including the web harvest, social media, digital photographs, oral history, literary manuscripts and a wealth of other born and turned digital material. This work supports the Library's Digital Collecting Strategy.
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