Your Web Archive Needs You! - UK Web Archive blog

"With the centenary of the outbreak of World War One taking place this summer the British Library’s Web Archiving team has been working with colleagues across the Library and beyond to initiate a ‘First World War Centenary Special Collection’ of websites ... The collection is part of a wide range of centenary projects under way at the Library including: [1] A public exhibition, ‘Enduring War: Grief, Grit and Humour’ [2] A digitisation project with Europeana 1914-1918, a major pan-European project to digitise more than 400,000 items from WW1 [3] A new British Library World War One website which enables users to explore over 500 newly-digitised historical sources from across Europe and many public events.  These projects will enable thousands of people to engage with the centenary and to showcase the many significant items held by the Library relating to the war ... Do you know of a website which may be suitable for the First World War Centenary Collection? If so, we would love to hear from you, particularly if you edit or publish a WW1 themed website yourself. Websites could include those created by museums, archives, libraries, special interest groups, universities, performing arts groups, schools and community groups, family and local history societies or individual publications. It does not cost anything to have your website archived by the British Library and involves no work on your part once nominated ..."