The Nordic Web Archive

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The Nordic Web Archive

• Preserving the present for the future Copenhagen
  June 18-19 2001
• Sverre Bang, Project Manager

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Economy

• Nordunet2 DKK 1.400.000,-
• Nordic National Libraries DKK 600.000,-

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Organisation
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Goals

• Provide access to the Nordic web archives
• Search the archive
• Navigate the archive
• Archive independent

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So far
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Search Engine Vendors

• FAST Search and Transfer ASA
• Excalibur Technologies
• Index Data ApS (Zmbol)
• Various Open Source Serch Engines

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Vendor chosen FAST

• Scalability
• Query response time
• FAST RD department in Oslo

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The agreement with FAST

• Will be signed during this week
• Comprises
• Search engine
• Software for conversion from various file-formats
  to html
• Software for language detection

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The Archive(s)
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Exporting the Archive
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Indexing
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Accessing the archives
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Search Engine Architecture
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Search Engine Architecture II