ULCC handles collection management for JISC as part of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC), capturing and archiving websites from JISC projects and other websites of relevance to this community.

Digital preservation specialists at ULCC are managing a two-year pilot project for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to select, appraise, capture and archive the websites of projects which are JISC-funded. ULCC were awarded the contract in October 2004.

JISC are partner members of the UK Web-Archiving Consortium (UKWAC), a body which includes the British Library and The National Archives, and other organisations who have an interest in selecting and archiving websites. BL see sites primarily as publications (hence copyright and legal deposit terms apply), where TNA see them as potential public records under the Public Records Act. JISC's concern with websites is mainly as corporate records, although there are aspirations to expand website selection into other parts of the ac.uk domain.

UKWAC uses PANDAS software to profile the sites, and perform remote harvesting. PANDAS is based on HTTrack software: it fetches copies of HTML files, and embedded files, and delivers them to the UKWAC server. In the UK, the host partners for this software are Magus.

The sites are gathered by applying for signed permission from the project manager in each case. JISC are working to an agreed set of selection principles, rather than indiscriminately harvesting everything.

The archived copies are published on the UKWAC website. So far, the project websites of 110 completed JISC projects are available this way

You can access the archive at the UKWAC website.