Name: Webarchiv
Maintained by: Národní Knihovna Ceské Republiky (Czech National Library)
Website: https://www.webarchiv.cz
E-mail: webarchiv[@]nkp.cz
Launch: 2000 (first harvest: 3 September 2001)
Legal background: No permission is required for archiving, but a contract is concluded with the content holder for the public service.
Collection scope: Everything published in the territory of the Czech Republic; is in Czech language or created by a Czech author; or related to the Czech people or the country.
Types: National domain, thematic and event-based collections.
Size: 560 TB (as of 10 January 2024)
Access: Domain-level and selective harvests are available only within the library. Copies of sites with which the library has a contract with the owner can also be viewed in the public interface. Number of contracts: 4535 (10 January 2024).
Search: You can search by name, URL and keywords. The hit list shows a short description and the name of the publisher in addition to the keywords, and it is also possible to switch to a thumbnail view. You can browse by subject, subcollections and by name in the public collection. Bibliographic data can also appear in the library’s catalog.
Hungary related content: The .hu domain is not searchable, and there are only 5 results for the subject words starting with Maďar. (Data as of January 2024)
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Links:
- Czech language website and search engine
- English language website and search engine
- Facebook page
- X (Twitter) channel
- Github repository
- Wikipedia article
- MIA Wiki entry
Publications, presentations:
- Jan Hutař: WebArchive – Archive of the Czech Web
- Jan Hutař – Lukáš Matějka – Ludmila Celbová: Browsing Czech Web Archive
- Petr Žabička: Archiving the Czech Web: Issues and Challenges
- Jaroslav Kvasnica – Andrea Prokopová – Zdenko Vozár – Zuzana Kvašová: Analysis of the Czech Web Archive: Provenance, authenticity and technical parameters
- Marie Haškovcová – Illyria Brejchová – Luboš Svoboda – Andrea Prokopová: Webarchiv: 20 Years of Web Archiving in the Czech Republic
- Marie Haškovcová – Zdenko Vozár: Web archive of National Library of the Czech Republic