By Helena Byrne, Assistant Web Archivist, The British Library
The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) would like your help to archive websites from around the world related to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The IIPC has members in 33 countries but there are over 200 countries competing in the games and we need your help ensure that these countries are represented in the collection.
What we want to collect:
Public platforms in various formats such as:
- Websites
- Articles
- News Reports
- Blogs
The subjects covered on these sites can vary from:
- Sports Events
- Athletes/Teams
- Doping/Cheating and Corruption
- Olympic/Paralympic Venues
- Gender
- Fandom
- Environmental Issues
- Zika Virus
- General News/ Commentary
- Computer Games (eGames)
- Other
How to get involved:
Once you have selected the web pages you would like to see in the collection it only takes less than 5 minutes to fill in the submission form.
http://goo.gl/forms/n4M4XJKfg6STvosb2
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