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French Web Archives

Created by Louise Fauduet on Sep 27, 2011 · last edited by Louise Fauduet · on Sep 27, 2011 (view history) · 6 versions

Title	French Web Archives
Description	Several hundreds Tb of data representing 15 years of harvesting the French web. The harvesting was outsourced at first, and is now done inhouse. It is a mix of large scale harvests of the .fr domain and in-depth harvests of a curated selection of web sites. The data is encapsulated in ARC files (http://www.archive.org/web/researcher/ArcFileFormat.php)
Licensing	This data is obtained by the French National Library (BnF) through legal deposit and can only be accessed in the library premises.
Owner	French National Library (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Dataset Location	N/A
Collection Champion	Louise Fauduet (louisedotfauduetatbnfdotfr)
Issues brainstorm	MIME types declared by the web servers at the time of harvest do not always match results from the FILE utility when it it run on the archives.
List of Issues	Identifying web content