Email libgpdNational Government Statistical Web Sites
Collection Overview
National Government Statistical Web Sites is a selective collection of approximately 200 sites archived since June 2006. Statistical agencies from countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Oceania, South Asia, and
Citing Web Sites in the Archive
Please cite collections as follows:
Title of Collection. Archived by the
e.g.,
National Government Statistical Web Sites. Archived by the Indiana University Libraries Web Archive at
http://www.archive-it.org/collections/317. <accessed 14 December 2006>
Please cite individual seeds or web pages as follows:
“Title of web page.” Title of Collection. Archived by the
e.g.,
“Statistics
Government Statistical Web Sites. Archived by the Indiana University Libraries Web Archive at http://wayback.archive-it.org/317/20060610194419/www.statssa.gov.za/census01/html/default.asp
<accessed 14 December 2006>
Selection Criteria
Scope: Approximately 200 countries maintain statistical web sites. Those selected for archiving in the Indiana University Libraries Web Archive were chosen because they are national level web sites of interest to IU students and researchers.
Regions largely excluded because archival efforts are ongoing elsewhere are North America and
Technical issues such as the presence of filters or response time from sites have also influenced the selection of particular sites, or their retention over time. The list of sites may change over time to reflect changing conditions on the World Wide Web.
Volume: Seventy to two hundred seeds are captured in each crawl.
Crawl Parameters:
Ø Collection Dates: Crawls began in June, 2006.
Ø How often captured: After an initial test period, sites are scheduled to be harvested annually.
Acquisition Parameters:
Ø Depth: The complete web site, if possible.
Ø Breadth: Links are followed out to one external level.
Searching
Archive-It provides full text search capability for all public collections. Alternately, if you know the site you are looking for, enter the URL into the search box, and Archive-It will search for instances of that archived URL.
Archive-It release 2.12 added a link for accessing videos.
The search tool used to provide full-text access to the Library's Web archive collections is powered by the open-source search engine, Nutch.
Some hints on searching:
Ø Generally, search results are ranked by relevance according to several factors:
o how often the query terms appear in the page relative to how often they appear throughout the collection
o how often the query terms appear in the page compared to the length of the page
o whether the query terms appear in the URL
o whether the query terms appear in the hostname
Ø The Boolean search default is AND.
Ø If you want to find out about a topic discussed specifically on an archived web site, you can limit your search by adding site:[URL of archived site] to your search terms.
o e.g., population clock site:www.stats.govt.nz/ will find instances of the term population clock on the
Ø You can refine search results in the following ways:
o The link to other versions will take you to a list of archived versions that were captured on different dates.
o The more from... link will take you to other hits from that host.
Since the Indiana University Libraries have been archiving web sites only since spring 2006, you may wish to look for earlier versions of many of the sites in the Library's collections through the Internet Archive's general Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine, however, is not text searchable; you must know the URL of the site that you would like to view.
Other Related Sites
Sites below include IU Libraries web sites which lead to foreign national government statistical material and bibliographies, and selected external web sites which archive foreign national government agency material.
Statistical Yearbooks at IUB (Describes current and historic IU holdings.)
Country Resources: the Green Boxes (Links and call numbers for IU holdings on individual countries)
External Web Archives
Governments of Countries in Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania are actively archiving web sites. See the list of members of netpreserve.org international internet preservation consortium
http://netpreserve.org/about/members.php/
Contact Information:
Andrea Singer
Librarian for Foreign Government Information and
singer@indiana.edu
