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29 Jun 07

Hanzo archiving the birthplace of the World Wide Web

CERN, the birthplace of the World Wide Web, selected Hanzo to archive their entire public website and their collection of collaborators' sites and make the archives available to the public.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web while at CERN in 1989 and published the world's first website on 6 August 1991. Years later, Hanzo are archiving the whole of CERNs Web presence, and sharing this archive with European Archive and Internet Archive to ensure its long term preservation.

CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research is the world's largest particle physics laboratory and its main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research.

CERN has a website of similar scale, consisting of 10's of websites and 100's of microsites, plus many more collaborators sites and publishers sites carrying stories, news and insights into this extraordinary institution.

Using Hanzo Enterprise software and archiving services, Hanzo are helping CERN to collect a comprehensive snapshot of all accessible content several times a year, plus more frequent captures of regularly updated items such as news. Hanzo provides crawl engineering services and QA services to ensure the archived content is of the highest quality.

In addition, Hanzo are uploading this entire collection to the public web collection of the European Archive.

CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research is the world's largest particle physics laboratory and its main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research. CERN currently has approximately 2600 full-time employees. Some 7931 scientists and engineers (representing 500 universities and 80 nationalities), about half of the world's particle physics community, work on experiments conducted at CERN.

Member states' contributions to CERN for the year 2008 totalled CHF 1,075.863 million (around USD 990 million).

Most of the activities at CERN are currently directed towards building a new collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the experiments for it. The LHC represents a large-scale, worldwide scientific cooperation project. Physics experiments are expected to start in late spring 2008.