The Archipol project
The Archipol project involves the archiving of web sites produced by political parties in the Netherlands. The aim of the project is to make the digital archive available on-line, and discussions are currently being held with the parties to decide exactly how this will be done. The Documentation Centre for Dutch Political Parties (DNPP) and the University Library Groningen are carrying out the project.
The DNPP sees the archiving of these digital presentations as a logical extension of its original purpose, namely to collect, catalogue, and provide access to printed publications by and about political parties. The digital archive is a valuable resource for researchers from many disciplines such as history, sociology, political science and communications science as well as for journalists.
The project is also designed as a pilot study. The experiences and results of the project will be used to develop a general model that can be used by other institutions for archiving web sites.