Africa Initiative, 2013 -

Series

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Since February 2013, the NCAR Archives has been crawling and harvesting UCAR/NCAR websites using Archive It. The harvested websites include most UCAR/NCAR webpages and associated images, video, PDF files, and other content. The collection also includes the U.S. Weather Commission, a group that brings together the American weather industry, state and local governments, and academia in an organized effort to urge Congress and the Executive Branch to undertake, promote, and support our nation’s portfolio of environmental observations and weather forecasting capabilities. In 2021 the organization began the second phase of an initiative to migrate all sites to a consistent format and move internal content to a single portal. For this internal, password-protected content a web-recorder software was used to capture material. This content is not browsable online but available by request from the archivist. This content is still considered internal-only.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The date ranges in this finding aid refer to the time period in which the websites were crawled. The content on the websites may reflect earlier dates.

Dates

2013 -

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on the material in the Archive-It platform: https://archive-it.org/home/ncar. Internal-only sites crawled beginning in 2021 are restricted to staff only.

Conditions Governing Use

Not all material in this collection is in the public domain. It is the responsibility of the researcher to address copyright issues.

Biographical / Historical

The purpose of the UCAR Africa Initiative is to build a sustainable partnership between UCAR and African Institutions in order to pursue research and applications for the benefit of the African people. The initiative envisioned will: Involve genuine collaboration with African institutions Focus on institutional capacity building and research support Explore science research themes that are critical to Africa and important for the world Leverage the research infrastructure in the US to add value