hhavensteincw writes “The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is coming under fire for a new policy to cease the “harvesting” of a digital snapshot of all federal bureau and Congressional Web sites after each Presidential and Congressional term. NARA, which archived more than 75 million Web sites in 2004 after George Bush’s first term ended, will not harvest bureau and Congressional Web sites when his current term is over because it says agencies are supposed to be archiving Web content on their own. But NARA has been criticized by some for opting out of preserving these important historical archives on the Web.”
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