Detail map of Washington, District of Columbia, United States Overview map of Washington, District of Columbia, United States

A: Washington, District of Columbia, United States

The LC Initiates a Web Archiving Program

2000

In 2000 the Library of Congress initiated a prototype system called Minerva (Mapping the Internet the Electronic Resources Virtual Archive) to collect and preserve open-access Web resources. When I checked in August 2019 the name appeared to have been abandoned but the LC Archived Web Sites search page listed 17,436 websites archived.

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