By Helena Byrne, Curator of Web Archives, The British Library
The International Internet Preservation Consortium Content Development Group (IIPC CDG) would like your help to archive websites from around the world related to the 2018 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The IIPC has members in 33 countries but there are over 100 countries competing in the Games and we need your help to ensure that these countries are represented in the collection. The IIPC CDG has been building web archive collections on the Olympic and the Paralympic Games since 2010. The 2016 Summer Games was the first time they actively collected content related to activities both on and off the playing field.* The final 2018 Winter Games collection will be published here: https://archive-it.org/home/IIPC
What we want to collect:
Public platforms in various formats such as:
- Websites
- Subsections of websites with an Olympic tag
- Individual Articles
- News Reports
- Blogs and Social Media
The subjects covered on these sites can include but is not limited to:
- Athletes/Teams
- Computer Games (eGames)
- Doping/Cheating and Corruption
- Environmental Issues
- Fandom
- Gender Issues (Ex. media coverage, testosterone levels etc.)
- General News/ Commentary
- Olympic/Paralympic Venues
- Security
- Sports Events
- US/North Korean Relations
- 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.
https://goo.gl/forms/UwxiBg5klE6I7Z7g1
For more information and updates you can contact the IIPC CDG team via email (2018-winter-olympics [at] iipc.simplelists .com) or follow the collection hashtag #WAOlympics2018
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