Since January 30, 2020, when the World Health Organization declared the SARS CoV-2 disease (COVID-19) to be a public health emergency of international concern, the National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) Web Collecting and Archiving Working Group has been collecting a broad range of web-based content about the emerging pandemic for preservation in an Internet archive. Like NLM's other Global Health Events web collections, this content will have enduring value as a multifaceted historical record for future study and understanding of this event. This article describes the scope of the COVID-19 project; some of the content captured from websites, blogs, and social media; collecting criteria and methods; and related COVID-19 collecting efforts by other groups. The growing collection—2,500 items as of June 30, 2020—chronicles the many facets of the pandemic: epidemiology; vaccine and drug research; disease control measures and resistance to them; effects of the pandemic on health care institutions and workers, education, commerce, and many aspects of social life; effects for especially vulnerable groups; role of health disparities in infection and mortality; and recognition of racism as a public health emergency.

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国家医学图书馆全球健康事件网站存档，冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行收集

自2020年1月30日起，当世界卫生组织宣布SARS CoV-2疾病（COVID-19）为国际关注的突发公共卫生事件以来，国家医学图书馆（NLM）的网络收集和归档工作组一直在收集有关新兴流行病的大量基于Web的内容，用于保存在Internet档案中。像NLM的其他“全球健康事件”网络收藏一样，此内容作为多方面的历史记录将具有持久的价值，以供将来研究和了解此事件。本文介绍了COVID-19项目的范围；从网站，博客和社交媒体捕获的某些内容；收集标准和方法；以及其他团体收集有关COVID-19的努力。不断增长的收藏-截至6月30日，共有2500件商品，2020年-记录了大流行的许多方面：流行病学；疫苗和药物研究；疾病控制措施及其抵抗力；大流行对卫生保健机构和工人，教育，商业以及社会生活许多方面的影响；对特别弱势群体的影响；健康差距在感染和死亡率中的作用；以及将种族主义视为突发公共卫生事件。