Weekly web archiving roundup: March 4, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of March 4, 2015:

• “Google boss warns of ‘forgotten century’ with email and photos at risk“, by Vint Cerf.  Digital material including key historical documents could be lost forever because programs to view them will become defunct, says Vint Cerf

• “Internet Rights are Civil Rights: New Foundation Initiative Announced“, from Shafaq Hasan.  Announcement of the NetGain project, connecting Internet rights and civil rights.

• “Who Are the People? A Conversation on the Assemblages and the Archives of the People“, from Sherene Seikaly et. al.  Interesting post tying web content with community archiving in some places.

• “Project “BeerAdvocate magazine online” has begun, and we want your input“, from Todd Alstrom.  “The process of archiving all issues of BeerAdvocate magazine online has finally begun!”

• “Introducing the Federal Web Archiving Working Group“, guest post from Michael Neubert, a Supervisory Digital Projects Specialist at the Library of Congress.

Weekly web archiving roundup: February 27, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of February 27, 2015:

• “IIPC Official Blog: Netpreserve“, IIPC Official Blog: Netpreserve.

• “Va. in minority with no legislative video, audio archives“, from Patrick Wilson.  Virginia state legislature doesn’t have A/V of sessions online.

• “When you store your entire life online, you gamble with your memories“, from Caitlin Dewey.  Article about fragility of online content.

• “How two Palestinian Americans plan to PIVOT the world“, from Annie Robbins.  A story about merging technology and love.

Weekly web archiving roundup: February 19, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of February 19, 2015:

• “Turn Back the Pages with a Click“, The popular Facebook page, Old Ceylon, is perhaps one of the main forerunners among those who have proactively taken steps to archive Sri Lanka’s past on social media and the main vein for communal archives.

• “Moving Museum finds permanent home online“, from Anny Shaw.  The traveling art project launches a new web platform to archive its exhibitions and present new digital commissions.

• “Elsevier Now Adding eBooks to CLOCKSS Archiving“, Elsevier and CLOCKSS (slight web archiving connection).

• “Describing Web Collections“, from Allison Jai O’Dell.  Step by step post on describing web archives as web collections and utilizing MARC formatted records in the library’s catalog to align them with the rest of the institution’s collections.

Weekly web archiving roundup: February 13, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of February 13, 2015:

• “Knight Foundation Funds 8 Tech Innovations for Libraries“, by Ronald Barbra.  Knight Foundation grants include Internet Archive and other web projects (check out the same story from Venturebeat here).

• “Science Matters: The Internet giveth and the Internet taketh away“, from Roger Snodgrass.  The Internet may seem increasingly to appear omniscient and omnipresent, but it also has some less than omnipotent qualities that became evident after the sprawling network of networks began to be widely used.

• “The Oregon Trail and the future of internet’s past“, from Jinoy Jose P.  Google’s focus on preserving web history has shifted over the past several years.

Weekly web archiving roundup: February 5, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of February 5, 2015:

• “Never Trust a Corporation to do a Library’s Job“, as Google abandons its past, Internet archivists step in to save our collective memory.

• “Reposting your first profile picture is the latest Facebook craze“, from Caitlin Dewey.  As if we needed more opportunities to embarrass ourselves on Facebook, the world’s largest social network is abuzz with a new and questionably worthwhile game: Essentially, you surface your first-ever Facebook profile picture — and then nominate three friends to do the same.

• “Web Archive Management at NYARC: An NDSR Project Update“, from Karl-Rainer Blumenthal.  Guest post by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, National Digital Stewardship Resident at the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC).

• “Scottish independence material set for museum expo“, from Martyn McLaughlin.  The National Library of Scotland (NLS) is appealing for politicians, campaigners and members of the public alike to donate material relating to last year’s referendum on Scottish independence–including websites.

• “Archive.org MS-DOS Games Archive Lets You Play Nearly 2500 Classic Titles In Your Browser For Free, And Help Preserve Video Game History“, from Steve Buja.  Another look at the Internet Archive’s Games Archive: This past Christmas, intrepid games fan Jason Scott released nearly 2500 old MS-DOS games onto the internet for absolutely free.

Weekly web archiving roundup: January 28, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of January 28, 2015:

• “Library of Alexandria v2.0“, from Ed Summers. Post on Summers’ thoughts on the New Yorker’s article on Internet Archive and the webarchiving service landscape

• “The Promise of WebARChive Files: Exploring the Internet Archive as a Historical Resource“, from Ian Milligan.  Milligan’s presentation at the American Historical Association annual meeting on the opportunity and challenge of WARC files as historical record. Milligan urges historians to get involved and begin thinking about retaining the data that webarchivists generate today (link goes to Milligan’s blog post about the panel).

Weekly web archiving roundup: January 21, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of January 21, 2015:

• “The Cobweb: Can the Internet be Archived?“, from Jill Lepore. Piece on the ethereal and temporary nature of the web, reference rot, what web archiving is, and the Internet Archive’s role in preserving the Internet for the long term.

Weekly web archiving roundup: January 14, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of January 14, 2015:

• “Tracking Down the Elusive ‘Treasure House for Learning’“, from Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig. How we share information and spread knowledge has changed drastically from when the Smithsonian Institution unveiled its first homepage in May 1995.

• “Case Study: Web Archiving Ends the Screenshot Era for the Seattle Humane Society“, from Smarsh, Inc. Read the case study to learn how the organization simplified a potentially complex problem and now preserves its valuable content with Smarsh Web Archiving.

• “NYARC – Web Archiving Quality Assurance (QA)“, from NYARC. Procedural guide and reference source for issues specific to assuring the quality of specialist art historical resources collected from the web by the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), using the Internet Archive’s software service Archive-It.

• “Announcing a New Partnership: California Digital Library, UC Libraries, and Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service“, by Rosalie Lack.  The CDL and the UC Libraries are partnering with Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service. In the coming year, CDL’s Web Archiving Service (WAS) collections and all core infrastructure activities, i.e., crawling, indexing, search, display, and storage, will be transferred to Archive-It.

Weekly web archiving roundup: January 7, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of January 7, 2015:

• “From Lycos to Ask Jeeves to Facebook. Tracking the 20 most popular web sites every year since 1996“, from Philip Bump. Washington Post article with graphic showing the 20 most popular websites in December of each year from 1996 to present.

• “50 percent of mobile photographers use the cloud as a hub for backup and storage“, by Jackie Dove. Article about mobile photos and use of cloud storage.

• “Page Not Found: Video Games’ Vanishing History,” by Matt Helgeson. Thanks to the proliferation of blogs, websites, and videos on services like YouTube and Twitch, there is more content on video games being produced than ever before. However, we’re also losing a significant portion of the industry’s history on a daily basis.

Weekly web archiving roundup: December 17, 2014

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of December 17, 2014:

• “Playing with the Web Archive Analysis Workshop: A Few Tips for Fellow Tinkerers“, from Ian Milligan. Milligan explores the Web Archive Workshop that lets users extract tons of useful data from WARC files. This post show what is needed to get it up and running and then details some of the potential for data analysis..

• “Information Search in Web Archives“, thesis by Miguel Angelo Leal de Costa.