Absolute Orange

British Library UK Web Archive

November 2009 to December 2009

Required Skills:   front end web developer, user interface developer and user experience developer

As part of the British Library, the UK Web Archive's objective is to preserve web sites and their web pages. Using crawl engine technology the UK Web Archive takes snapshopts of web pages at any given time thereby building an archive of web pages. This archive can be used to research a given activity in UK history or to demonstrate the evolution of a web site. The archive is freely available to the public and is accessed through the public website.

Working with the lead developer Stephen Johnson, and ensuring that the management team and curators objectives were effectively communicated, Amy Varga was responsible for the complete redesign and development of the UK Web Archive website.

The online objectives were to:

• Provide public access to the UK Web Archive and,
• Promote the UK Web Archive initiative in preserving instances of UK website's for future reference

The UK Web Archive allocated 5 weeks in which to improve the website to be:

• Usable
• Standards compliant, browser compatible and platform compatible
• Web 2.0
• Informative and,
• Successfully promote their brand

The website was built on a Java platform using Freemarker templates