A New (Beta) Interface for the UK Web Archive
The UK Web Archive has a new user interface! Try it now:
What's new?
- For the first time you can search both the 'Open UK Web Archive'1 and the 'Legal Deposit Web Archive'2 from the same search box
- We have improved the search and have included faceting so that it's easier to find what you are looking for
- A simple, clean design that (hopefully) allows the content to be the focus
- Easily browsable 'Special Collections' (curated groups of websites on a theme, topic or event)
What next?
This is just the start of what will be a series of improvements, but we need your help! Please use the beta site and tell us how it went (good, bad or meh) by filling in this short 2 minute survey:
www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ukwasurvey01
Thank you!
by Jason Webber, Web Archive Engagement Manager, The British Library
1 The Open UK Web Archive was started in 2005 and comprises of approximately 15,000 websites that can be viewed anywhere
2 The Legal Deposit Web Archive was started in 2013 and comprises millions of websites but these can only be viewed in the Reading Rooms of UK Legal Deposit Libraries