A Study of Web Preservation for DMP, NDAP, and TELDAP, Taiwan

摘要

National Digital Archives Program (NDAP, Taiwan), spanning the period 2002 to 2007, emphasized on both humanities and technology. It has selected and digitized the most representative cultural heritage in Taiwan. Via the Union Catalogs, users can search and browse millions of multimedia resources with proper keywords or the built-in categories. However, since the complete digital resources are distributed in individual websites and databases built by different projects across different institutions, they may become unaccessible due to lack of maintenance after the associated projects have finished. Therefore, a pilot project has been launched to study the Web preservation strategy in order that the related websites of NDAP, its initiative project - Digital Museum Projects (DMP, 1998-2002), and its extended project - Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP, 2008-2012) can be well preserved for promotion, management, and development. This paper presents the results of the pilot study on the 27 DMP thematic websites.