CyberCemetery, Archiving Lost Web Sites
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When agencies lose federal funding, Web sites disappear without notice. But librarians at the University of North Texas want the information on those sites to be preserved. So they created CyberCemetery.
Catherine Cuellar of member station KERA reports.
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