In Denmark, the archiving and preservation of the Danish portion of the internet is done by The State and University Library and the Royal Library. From www.netarchive.dk : "A new legal deposit law came into force on the 1st of July 2005. As a result, The State and University Library and the Royal Library are now collecting and preserving the Danish portion of the internet. In practical terms, this means that the two institutions collect internet-material using so-called "harvesters" (web crawlers). The archive is not publicly accessible and initially can only be used for research purposes and with prior permission from the Danish Data Protection Agency. A set of guidelines regarding the new law has been developed. It outlines the implications of the new law for the national libraries and for websites and content-providers. " The guidelines are in danish only, but the law itself states that setting up a password might not be sufficient to avoid harvesting: "§ 10. The person under the legal deposit obligation must upon demand inform the legal deposit institution about access codes and provide other information etc. necessary for gaining access to the material, produce copies of the material and make the material available to the general public. " http://www.bs.dk/content.aspx?itemguid=%7B332484E6-A5B1-4CEE-B953-0598431820... The archive is meant to collect everything made publically available. Examples of material not considered public are closed intranets with a limited set of users like company employees or research groups, or emails and the like aimed at a limited group of persons. The decisive factor between public and private seems to be whether a password is obtainable for all (= public) or by invitation only (= private). Opt-out is not possible, and robots.txt is ignored. Vidar Falkenberg Ph.d.-student Institute of Information and Media Studies University of Aarhus Denmark The Den 14.08.2007 kl. 00:50:10 skrev <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>:

Do remember that The Wayback Machine is not the only archive...possibly just the most well known at least to the online research set. Several libraries are archiving blogs they view as significant, The National Library of Australia comes to mind here.

To my knowledge selection for archiving there is opt-out...not that I know of anyone who has done so...nor do I know what the library would do if someone said know. Please more info here from anyone in the know. I do know that those who have been selected have been informed of the selection...not asked if it was ok for their work to be included.

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