Archiving an Island Nation: The Maldives Government Web Archive

The Maldives Government Web Archives contains Maldives government websites at the national level, including sites such as those for the President’s Office and other ministries like the Ministry of Arts Culture and Heritage. Most of these websites are in Dhivehi (or Divehi) and English. In the future, I’d like to expand the collection to include government sites from the atolls. There are 22 natural atolls and 20 administrative units covering the approximately 1,200 islands that comprise the Maldives. Crawling these websites will allow us to capture information about how each unit responds to the unique challenges and needs of the individual atolls.

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