[Netarchivesuite-curator] BnF NAS update for November

[peter.stirling at bnf.fr]

Hello all, 

Following the attacks of November 13th, the digital legal deposit team 
decided to launch an event crawl to capture a sample of reactions on the 
web (tributes, support, analysis, reactions). As well as our usual harvest 
of free and subscription-based news sites, which have been covering the 
events, we have also crawled 18 new sites (such as 
https://www.facebook.com/PoliceNationale/ or http://www.defense.gouv.fr) 
and 43 Twitter accounts or hashtags (such as 
https://twitter.com/Place_Beauvau or 
http://twitter.com/hashtag/attackparis), from November 16th to November 
20th. Capturing Twitter four times a day and other sites once a day during 
a week gave 1.5 million URLs for a volume of 34.7 GB.

We have other planned crawls in November and December. This electoral year 
in France is somewhat special, for two reasons: French citizens are called 
upon to vote at an unusual period of the year, December, and for the first 
regional elections which involve a major change in the organisation of the 
regions, with a reduction from 26 to 17. However, the need to preserve 
ephemeral born-digital electoral content and the way the BnF’s digital 
legal deposit handles this crawl stay the same year after year. 

Therefore, we are once again working with external partners for the 
selection of sites. Since the end of September, librarians from the BnF 
collection departments and from 21 regional libraries in France have 
started selecting websites to archive. Each library’s curator team makes 
its selections at the scale of its local electoral campaign, using a 
common framework of selection and the BnF’s selection tool “BCWeb”. This 
system has been in place for each election since 2010 and allows great 
continuity in the nature of the electoral collections in the web archives. 
The seed lists will be crawled from 1st to 31st of December, on a daily 
basis.  We will be sure to send you all the detailed results of the crawl 
in a future update. 

As you probably are aware, France will host and chair the 21st Conference 
of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 
(COP21 / CMP11), from November 30 to December 11. The BnF will organize 
different actions and conferences to show its implication in this debate. 
It was therefore decided to contribute with an event crawl with an 
allocated budget of 0.5 TB. Our team will ask BnF librarians and partners 
to send seeds and we will crawl them twice (before and after this period).

Finally, our broad crawl for 2015 has finished - it took only six weeks, 
much less than we were expecting. We will send more details in our 
December update.

Best regards,
The BnF Digital Legal Deposit team

Expositions : 
Anselm Kiefer, l’alchimie du livre  - jusqu'au 7 février 2016 - BnF - François-Mitterrand 
Images du Grand Siècle, l'estampe française au temps de Louis XIV, 1660-1715  - jusqu'au 31 janvier 2016 - BnF - François-Mitterrand Avant d'imprimer, pensez à l'environnement. 
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