Exploit Interactive was an e-journal which was funded by the EU’s Telematics for Libraries programme. Nine issues of the journal were published between May 1999 and October 2000.

After the project funding had ceased, additional funding from the EU was obtained to publish a new e-journal known as Cultivate Interactive which was launched in July 2000. However there was a need to define a policy and accompanying procedures for the preservation of the Exploit Interactive Web site and content.

As described in a case study document on Providing Access to an EU-funded Project Web Site after Completion of Funding the following policy decisions were taken:

• The Web site’s domain name will be kept for at least 3 years after the end of funding.
• We will seek to ensure the Web site continues for at least 10 years after
  the end of funding.
• We will seek to ensure that the Web site continues to function, although we
  cannot give an absolute commitment to this.
• We will not commit to fixing broken links to external resources.
• We will not commit to fixing non-compliant HTML resources.

The case study went on to measure the disk storage used by the Web site and to quantify the costs. The storage requirements of less than 500 Mg of disk space were not significant so it was agreed to continue to pay for the www.exploit-lib.org domain name until at least October 2008.

Periodic automated links checks were carried out on the Web site to ensure that the internal links on the Web site continued to work.

A similar process was established for the Cultivate Interactive e-journal, when its funding ceased in February 2003. Read the rest of this entry »