These pages are NOT live!
The sites and pages that you will find here are not live; in other words, they may or may not still be working at the original institution. This archive is intended to document and preserve the World War I commemorative activities at Illinois cultural institutions. These sites and pages are downloaded onto this server have been made live so that the efforts of thousands of librarians, historians, archivists, and scholars of all sorts can be preserved and utilized into the future.
The purpose of this site.
The centennial of the First World War was commemortated from 2016 to 2019 by a number of cultural institutions. This is an archive of the commemorative efforts of the people of Illinois. These sites and pages are downloaded onto this server have been made live so that the efforts of thousands of librarians, historians, archivists, and scholars of all sorts can be preserved and utilized into the future.
How these sites were collected.
We have copied the included sites from their original locations using a simple Linux utility called
wget. We have converted the links as much as possible to work locally on this server.
Why these sites were chosen.
We have tried to find and capture as many Illinois commemorative sites. Let us know if we aren't including
a site.
Why archive websites in the first place?
From Wikipedia:
Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web to ensure the information is preserved in an archive for future researchers, historians, and the public.[1] Web archivists typically employ web crawlers for automated capture due to the massive size and amount of information on the Web. (LINK)
