On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Gordon Paynter <Gordon.Paynter@natlib.govt.nz> wrote:

2. Others ask why we are harvesting from the USA and not New Zealand?

We have contracted the Internet Archive to conduct the harvest because
they are the single most experienced provider of large-scale crawling
services in the world.

Is there a particular reason why a NZ based proxy can not be used? I imagine this is not a short term, but a continuing project.

Constant use of international bandwidth could be expensive for some NZ based sites.

Second, or non NZ based sites with NZ oriented content what is the Natlib's policy on archiving this material? Is access to this material covered by NZ copyright laws, thus allowing Natlib to archive this material? Or is it covered by the laws of the country in which it is hosted, thus making this archival process a legal question. Particular material in the US which have pretty stick (and stupid IMO) copyright laws.

Thirdly, what is the legal status on NZ based copyright material which is hosted overseas? Has Natlib read the recent Government ICT bulletin on use of offshore hosting services?

Nicholas