Resumen de The state of e-legal deposit in France: Looking back at five years of putting new legislation into practice and envisioning the future

Peter Stirling, Gildas Illien, Pascal Sanz, Sophie Sepetjan

• The article describes the legal situation in France regarding the legal deposit of digital material, and shows how it has been implemented in practice at the Bibliothe`que nationale de France (BnF). The focus is on web archiving, where the BnF has experience going back almost 10 years, but other aspects of digital legal deposit are discussed, with possible future developments and challenges. Throughout comparisons are made with the situations in other countries.