In July 2003 the national libraries of Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, The British Library (UK), The Library of Congress (USA) and the Internet Archive (USA) acknowledged the importance of international collaboration for preserving Internet content for future generations. This group of 12 institutions chartered the IIPC to fund and participate in projects and working groups to accomplish the Consortium’s goals. The initial agreement was in effect for three years, during which time the membership was limited to the charter institutions. Since then, membership has expanded to include additional libraries, archives, museums and cultural heritage institutions involved in Web archiving. For a complete list visit our members page.

The goals of the consortium are:

To enable the collection, preservation and long-term access of a rich body of Internet content from around the world.
To foster the development and use of common tools, techniques and standards for the creation of international archives.
To be a strong international advocate for initiatives and legislation that encourage the collection, preservation and access to Internet content.
To encourage and support libraries, archives, museums and cultural heritage institutions everywhere to address Internet content collecting and preservation

The National Library of Scotland (NLS)

The National Library of Scotland (NLS) is the Legal Deposit library for Scotland, and one of five in the UK. The 2003 Legal Deposit Act paved the way for the deposit of digital material in the UK, with regulation covering web archiving scheduled in the next couple of years. NLS first began web archiving in 1999 for the Scottish Parliamentary elections—the first in almost 300 years. NLS is also a founding member of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC), which was set up in 2003 to test the feasibility of selective web archiving in the UK and resulted in a publicly available UK web archive. Building on the success of the project, partners are developing new models for web archiving in the UK, and as part of the development of the Library's Trusted Digital Repository (TDR), NLS implemented the Danish Netarchive Suite early in 2008. Content collected here will continue to form part of the UK web archive. NLS is exploring with partners different approaches to bringing distributed web archives together, as well as providing more granular access to collections and content, and is also implementing a number of tools to assist in the management, preservation and discovery of its web archive and other digital collections. For more information, visit:
http://www.nls.uk/professional/ict/trusted_digital_repository.html