By Helena Byrne, Assistant Web Archivist, The British Library
The IIPC Content Development Group (CDG) has been busy archiving the trials and tribulations of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Olympics might be over but in just a few days the Paralympics will begin and fans will be glued to their screens again.
This project is collecting public platforms such as websites, articles, news reports, blogs and social media about Rio 2016. You can follow updates on this project on Twitter by using the collection hashtag #Rio2016WA. The CDG group has been more active on Twitter and recently hosted a Twitter chat on 10th August 2016 to give an insight on what’s involved in web archiving the Olympics. The chat was based on set questions published in an IIPC blog post with a Q&A session and some time for live nominations. This was an international chat; even though it was small it helped us to make connections with a wider audience. The chat was added to Storify as well as the final archived collection of the Games.
So far the Rio 2016 Collection has over 4,000 nominations from IIPC members and the general public. The nominations up to now are from seventy six countries across the world. However as you can see from the Google Map there are still many countries that have not been covered. Can you help fill the void?
The majority of the public nominations cover Ireland, the Pacific Islands & South Korea and are in a range of languages such as English, Korean, Dutch, Georgian & French to name but a few. Some countries on the map have only one site nominated while others have many, even if you see that there are nominations from your country the web pages you are looking at might not be in the collection. There is still time for you to get involved in web archiving the Olympics and Paralympics. The public nomination form will be open till 21st September 2016. If you would like to make a nomination you can follow these guidelines. This is your chance to be part of the Games!
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