2023-08-13 14:00:03
On June 22, the Kyo group celebrated the 20th anniversary of its album The path by launching a “skyblog”, a nod to its success in the 2000s. Coincidence or curse, Skyrock, owner of the platform, announced the next day the end of its legendary blogs.
In the process, the National Library of France (BNF) and the National Audiovisual Institute (INA) hastened to announce setting up a new archive : on the 19 million blogs still in existence, the two institutions want to collect 12 million and 1.6 million respectively. The news has made people happy on the Internet, but also a few worried: their blogs, which some might have preferred to forget about, will they be kept?
Three types of collections
The work of archiving the Web by the BNF and the INA is not new. Its legal framework has been officially defined in 2006, thanks to the law on copyright and neighboring rights and the modification of the heritage code. A mission divided between the two institutions, the INA concentrating its work more precisely on the online extension of audiovisual media, whether websites or social networks.
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The INA thus archives 16,000 sites, 20,000 video, podcast or audio channels daily, for a total of 135 billion URLs and 3,000 terabytes. The BNF currently covers 5.9 million domain names, or 2,000 terabytes of data and 48 billion web pages. Beyond these broad harvests, the two institutions can also launch backups on specific events, for example confinements, or respond to requests from external companies.
It is for these reasons that Skyrock contacted them in April. Pierre Bellanger, its founder and president, explains in a written message sent to the Monde that he thus wishes to preserve what he considers to be a “unique sociological treasure, a life-size testimony to the individual experiences of the new generation of the first decade of the century”. The INA had already begun archiving certain skyblogs from 2009, for example by compiling nearly two hundred dedicated to the series More beautiful life.
However, the status of Skyrock has led to some discussions on the scope of the two institutions. “The era of the emergence of skyblogs, around 2002, marked a break in the ecosystem of audiovisual communicationjudge Claude Mussou, head of the INA Thèque. Since Skyrock was originally a radio station, a field that we cover at INA, it was normal that we extend to the scope of skyblogs. » On the side of the BNF and its head of digital legal deposit, Vladimir Tybin, it was felt on the contrary that skyblogs were more their responsibility since “the company that publishes Skyrock.com is not the same as the one that broadcasts the radio”.
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