Preservation Web Harvesting - Library of Congress

The Library of Congress requires contract support to enable the systematic harvesting of content from the web based on instructions from Library staff, to provide temporary access to the content and required crawl reports for quality review, and to enable transfer of content to the Library for preservation and public access. The contractor shall provide Web Harvesting Services that will result in the capture of web content to be added to the Library of Congress collections. Specific performance areas include Web content capture according to scheduling and deduplication of crawls as specified by the Library; Access to captured content for Library quality review; Reports; Web content hosting and storage; and Transfer of content to the Library. The contract is planned to be for 325 TB and will include the following crawls: • 24 Weekly • 6 Monthly • 3 Extended • 24 Weekly crawls of the U.S. Elections content.