[8] This is consistent with the requirement to manage websites, but their status means that changes may be of interest to the public and watchdog groups.

[9] Evidence of the demand for continued access to historical web material can be found in an announcement made by the EPA in response to concerns about changes in 2017, stating that pages from the previous administration would be carefully archived.

[11] The archive prioritizes sites administering areas regarded as likely to be updated or removed over the period of transition.

[12] The public are encouraged to nominate important sites and these are combined with broad crawls of government domains to create the collection.

[15][16] Researchers have used these collections to examine the history of climate change policy and reuse of suspended U.S. government Twitter accounts.