UK Government Web Continuity: Persisting Access through Aligning Infrastructures
Government's use of the Web in the UK is prolific and a wide range of services are now available though this channel. The government set out to address the problem that links from Hansard (the transcripts of Parliamentary debates) were not maintained over time and that therefore there was need...
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2009-06-01
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| author | Amanda Spencer John Sheridan David Thomas David Pullinger |
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| description | Government's use of the Web in the UK is prolific and a wide range of services are now available though this channel. The government set out to address the problem that links from Hansard (the transcripts of Parliamentary debates) were not maintained over time and that therefore there was need for some long-term storage and stewardship of information, including maintaining access. Further investigation revealed that linking was key, not only in maintaining access to information, but also to the discovery of information. This resulted in a project that affects the entire government Web estate, with a solution leveraging the basic building blocks of the Internet (DNS) and the Web (HTTP and URIs) in a pragmatic way, to ensure that an infrastructure is in place to provide access to important information both now and in the future.
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| spelling | doaj.art-6c8abcbd79234fcc84fd6d68c1997a0f2024-02-06T00:07:41ZengUniversity of EdinburghInternational Journal of Digital Curation1746-82562009-06-0141UK Government Web Continuity: Persisting Access through Aligning InfrastructuresAmanda SpencerJohn SheridanDavid ThomasDavid Pullinger Government's use of the Web in the UK is prolific and a wide range of services are now available though this channel. The government set out to address the problem that links from Hansard (the transcripts of Parliamentary debates) were not maintained over time and that therefore there was need for some long-term storage and stewardship of information, including maintaining access. Further investigation revealed that linking was key, not only in maintaining access to information, but also to the discovery of information. This resulted in a project that affects the entire government Web estate, with a solution leveraging the basic building blocks of the Internet (DNS) and the Web (HTTP and URIs) in a pragmatic way, to ensure that an infrastructure is in place to provide access to important information both now and in the future. https://ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/82 |
| spellingShingle | Amanda Spencer John Sheridan David Thomas David Pullinger UK Government Web Continuity: Persisting Access through Aligning Infrastructures International Journal of Digital Curation |
| title | UK Government Web Continuity: Persisting Access through Aligning Infrastructures |
| title_full | UK Government Web Continuity: Persisting Access through Aligning Infrastructures |
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| title_short | UK Government Web Continuity: Persisting Access through Aligning Infrastructures |
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