A Tale of a Disappearing Website « The Signal: Digital Preservation Some of you may have heard the recent news<http://chronicle.com/article/Budget-Cuts-Force-Biodiversity/130331/>that The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) program, including their website <http://www.nbii.gov/termination/index.html>, was to be terminated on January 15 due to a loss of funding. This impending loss grabbed the attention of not only researchers and science and biology librarians<http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/01/information-technology/librarians-researchers-concerned-as-u-s-terminates-only-national-biodiversity-network/>, but web archivists as well. We don’t often http://1.usa.gov/yg8d91 Source: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/01/a-tale-of-a-disappearing-website/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://1.usa.gov/yg8d91+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
