The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is coming under fire for discontinuing its policy of taking a "digital snapshot" of all federal agency and congressional public Web sites at the end of congressional and presidential terms.
NARA, which until this year had collected "harvests" of federal Web sites at the end of presidential and congressional terms, said in a recent memo that it would discontinue the practice at the end of George W. Bush's presidency.
But some observers were quick to criticize the elimination of the harvests, noting that NARA had saved millions of Web pages during harvests in 2004 and 2006.
You can read the details in an article in ComputerWorld at http://tinyurl.com/4556hr.
