My website has become an archive, rather than a cv, or calling card, which is understandably the normal purpose of writer / artist sites. I know it's not as easily navigable as it might be, but it's a metaphor for my approach in general. I see my website as kind of a work itself, though it can be a neverending process, keeping it updated, like cleaning a house, and can make me feel like the volume of what I do is pointless, it's something I invest time in. This seems to have paid off.
I'm happy to say the British Library UK Web Archive will be archiving my site as part of their digital program that aims to 'make accessible and preserve web resources of scholarly and cultural importance from the UK domain.
My site will be in the Open UK Web Archive which "has been collecting websites by permission since 2004 and is the smallest of the three collections. Its selective nature means that the sites are of high quality, and the archival copies have been manually quality-checked and carefully annotated. This curated collection covers aspects of UK life and culture, as well as specific events such as general elections, the 2012 Olympic Games, and the commemoration of the centenary of the First World War."
In response I’ve undertaken some long overdue updates and restructuring for the site and how it records my work.
