Web Archiving Roundup: March, 2019

Help the SAA Electronic Records Section find more about the most useful resources for the electronic records community. You can find the survey and a bit more about their project here.

Registration for Archivematica Camp in Vancouver, June 24-26, is still open.

Early bird registration for IIPC Web Archiving Conference is now open. You can also take a look at the program.

The International Journal of Digital Humanities has an article on web archiving initiatives in Europe. The article is titled Web Archives as Data Resource for Digital Scholars.

The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation have launched the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Transition Web Archive.

Library of Congress Web Archives blog post from Jesse Johnston, Senior Digital Collections Specialist at LOC, gives a walkthrough into sorting through a set of US Government PDFs.

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the world wide web exploring internet archives through emulated legacy browsers with Rhizome!

Another fun article to celebrate the web’s 30th anniversary looking at Australia’s ugly 90’s websites.

The National Library of Ireland recently announced their 2018 Web Archiving collection.

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Web Archiving Roundup: February, 2019

You can still register for AASLH’s webinar Web Archiving: What, Why, and How, the webinar will take place on February 28 @3:00pm EST.

Archive-It will host an advanced training session on February 26 at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada), the session will focus on Archive-It as a Reference Tool.

The National Videogame Foundation in collaboration with Bath Spa University and funded by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust, released a White Paper titled Game Over? Curating, Preserving and Exhibiting Videogames.

Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian, has an article in The Economist about digital preservation.

Ilya Kreymer, Webrecorder Lead Developer, shares his Code4Lib 2019 presentation slides.

A new release of web crawler project Heritrix 3 is now available.

Middlebury Facebook group Middlebury Memes for Crunchy Teens to be archived by Special Collections.

PhD candidate Rhiannon Lewis writes a response to the DPC’s Briefing Day on web archiving for community and individual archives.

New version of Web Archiving Integration Layer (WAIL) for macOS is now available.

Shawn M. Jones writes a blog post for the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University regarding Google+ shutting down.

Stanford Libraries receives a $25 million grant to preserve Silicon Valley Archives

PANDORA, Australia’s Web Archive, initially established by the National Library of Australia celebrates its 10 year anniversary.

Web Archiving Roundup: January, 2019

Here is your first Web Archiving Roundup of 2019!

• Archive-It releases add scoping rules in bulk to web archiving seeds.
• Archive-It is hiring. See job postings for a Partner Coordinator and a Technical Support Specialist here.
• Anthony Vaver, Local History Librarian and Archivist at Westborough Public Library, recounts the web archiving experience at Westborough.
• Natalie Baur gives an inside scoop on Piloting the 2018 Government Web Archive.
• Wikipedia is 18 years old and to celebrate we take back to their effort of rescuing broken links through the Wayback Machine.
• Cobweb will develop web archive collections with their new platform.
• Technology policy reporter Cat Zakrezwski addresses the issue of social media and politics.
• Valerie Schafer and Benjamin G. Thierry take us back to the 90s as the turning decade for Internet and the Web.
• Gethin Rees, Lead Curator of Digital Mapping at the British Library, talks about extracting place names from Web Archives at Archives Unleashed Vancouver.
• The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University have a great recap of their 2018 activities, such as the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL ’18) and several web archiving articles.

Web Archiving Roundup: December 17, 2018

Here’s your Web Archiving Roundup for December, 2018:

• Registration is open for an online Introduction to Web Archiving course through the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s iSchool. The course will run from February 4 – March 17.
• Registration remains open for the Archive-It Mid-Winter Partner meeting on January 29, 2019 in Seattle, WA. The meeting will take place at Benroya Hall in downtown Seattle from 9am-1pm.
• The IIPC Web Archiving Conference is still accepting papers for the 2019 conference. The conference will be hosted by the National and University Library of Croatia in Zagreb, which coincides with the 15h anniversary of the Croatian Web Archive (HAW). Deadline for submissions is January 7th, 2019.
• Web Archiving internship opportunity at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• Recorded webinar and slides on Cobweb functionality.
• Web archiving compliance guide for K-12, a publication by the American School & University magazine.
• Article at IIPC by Peter de Bode and Kees Teszelszky about internet archeology at the National Library of the Netherlands.
• CDL has a wrap-up project update of the ARKs in the Open project.
• Library of Congress launches their Web Archiving Program page.
• Archive-It announces the winners of their Pitch a Collection contest.

Web Archiving Roundup: November 21, 2018

Here’s your Web Archiving Roundup for November, 2018:

• The IIPC Web Archiving Conference is accepting papers for the 2019 conference. The conference will be hosted by the National and University Library of Croatia in Zagreb, which coincides with the 15h anniversary of the Croatian Web Archive (HAW). Deadline for submissions is January 7^th, 2019.
• Registration is still open for the Archive-It Mid-Winter Partner Meeting on January 29, 2019 in Seattle, WA. The meeting will coincide with ALA Mid-Winter.
• The Library of Congress is sending a call to anyone interested in web archive data sets by providing access through their Web Archive Data Sets Experiments page hosted by the Library of Congress Labs.
• The National Library Board of Singapore announces project to archive 180,000 Singapore websites.
• Japan’s National Diet Library announces English language user interface to their web archiving project (WARP).
• Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection is currently asking for Brooklyn local content suggestions as part of the Internet Archive’s Community Webs program (https://communitywebs.archive-it.org/).

Web Archiving Roundup: October 23, 2018

Yes, we’re back! (you’re welcome)

It’s been a while since our last roundup so we thought it would be a good idea to do a quick recap. The SAA Web Archiving Section recently held elections for the Steering Committee for vice chair, secretary, education coordinator, communications manager, and student member. The newly appointed members are:

Emily Ward, Digital Archivist, East Baton Rouge Parish Library
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect

Julia Corrin, University Archivist, Carnegie Mellon University
Education Coordinator

Kelsey O’Connell, Digital Archivist, Northwestern University
Secretary

Elisa Landaverde, Metadata Librarian, Michigan State University
Communications Manager

Louise LoBello, Archives Student, Rutgers University
Student Member

We are currently working on updating our microsite so stay tuned for our new look.

And now for our October roundup, here are some web archiving highlights:

• Sunlight Foundation announces The Web Integrity Project Volunteer Position: Website Monitoring Analyst
• Policy Matters. ACA@UBC 11th Annual Seminar and Symposium, 14-15 Feb. 2019 https://slais.ubc.ca/events/event/policy-matters-acaubc-11th-annual-seminar-and-symposium/
• Librarians, Archivists & Technology: A Survey of Tools Used
• Archive-It announcement: Cobweb Call for Participation and Metadata
• National Library of Medicine update on the Opioid Epidemic web archive
• University of Birmingham geographical research using archived websites

Web Archiving Roundup: July 2, 2018

Here’s your Web Archiving Roundup for July 2, 2018:

• In Web Archives for the Analog Archivist, Aleksandr Gelfand writes: ‘By incorporating the use of Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine into their workflows, archivists working primarily with analog records may enhance their ability in such tasks as the construction of a processing plan, the creation of more accurate historical descriptions for finding aids, and potentially may be able to provide better reference services to their patrons.’
• The British Library looks at its preservation plans for emerging formats, including archived websites.
• In Wales, MirrorWeb will work with the Welsh Government ‘to digitally archive the Welsh nation’s online presence.’
• In the next few weeks, Cobweb will begin conducting user testing of its functional prototype to learn from potential users about what they’d consider most useful in a collaborative collection development platform.
• A look at Memento Tracer: High Fidelity Web Archiving at Scale.

Web Archiving Roundup: May 29, 2018

Here’s your Web Archiving Roundup for May 29, 2018:

• Read an interview with Jane Winters, Professor of Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, who discusses using web archives as primary sources in her research.
• Watch Kate Bowers, Jessica Venlet, and Deborah Kempe, discuss approaches to describing web archives.
• Catch up with the International Internet Preservation Consortium’s Content Development Group, and read about their plans for the rest of 2018.
• Did you know that WordPress turns fifteen this year? Listen to Jay Hoffman discuss its context within the larger history of the web.
• And: Small Data Industries gives us a study on the Curation, Acquisition, and Preservation of Animated GIFs.

Web Archiving Roundup: May 7, 2018

Here’s your Web Archiving Roundup: May 7, 2018

• On Archive-It.org, Diana Bowers-Smith — at the Brooklyn Public Library — writes about ‘Saving Local News on the Web,’ and Archive-It’s Community Webs program.
• This week, at the Yale Center for British Art, John Bell and Jon Ippolito ask whether art can be permanent in the digital age.
• The Society of American Archivists’ Records Management Section reminds us that URLs Aren’t Archives.
• A look at Archiving the 1 October Web over at The Public Historian.
• And, at Wired: What Happens When Science Just Disappears?

Web Archiving Roundup: April 16, 2018

Here’s your Web Archiving Roundup for April 16, 2018:

• On NiemanLab, read about how the New York Times is trying to preserve millions of old pages the way they were originally published. (Archived link.)
  
• Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed has developed two new videos about the ins and outs of web archiving (in Dutch, of course, but featuring English subtitles). (Archived link.)
• The International Internet Preservation Consortium has an update on the Web Curator Tool. (Archived link.)
• And the California Digital Library has an update on Cobweb, which supports the distributed work of nominating websites for inclusion in web archive collections by allowing project organizers to establish, describe, and manage thematic collecting projects. (Archived link.)
• From the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Adventures in Conserving Old Tech. (Archived link.)