Federal Web Harvests

The mission of the National Archives is to "...serve(s) American democracy by safeguarding and preserving the records of our Government, ensuring that the people can discover, use, and learn from this documentary heritage." (www.archives.gov/about/info/mission.html#vis) An increasing amount of that documentary heritage appears on the World Wide Web. As such, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) harvests Federal web sites on a recurring basis. That harvested and archived material is then made publicly available here on the web.

Those harvests are currently conducted at the end of each Presidential term (4 years) and Congress (2 years) to provide a macro view of how the government's web presence changes with the election cycles.

Harvests

109th Congress (2006)

Presidential Term (2004)

Accuracy of Harvests

The accuracy of each harvest was affected by these factors:

The completeness of URL source lists,
Whether URLs resolved successfully, and
The capabilities of crawler tools used (see Heritrix at http://crawler.archive.org/) and the server environment being crawled. See a report on limitations of capabilities.

NARA has made every reasonable effort to ensure that web sites' code and programming were captured accurately. NARA is not responsible for any web sites' compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and requirements. NARA is responsible for providing public access to these copied web sites but is not responsible for maintaining code such as links, accessibility features, search or site maps, or other functionality that may have been true of the sites before they were copied.

Mention of commercial products, services, or resources within this notice does not constitute an endorsement by the National Archives and Records Administration or the United States Government.

Learn more: To find current Federal agency web sites, please use http://www.usa.gov/. For technical issues, contact info@archive.org. For questions about these Federal records, contact cer@nara.gov. For questions about this website, contact John.Kane@nara.gov.