Weekly web archiving roundup: September 25, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of September 25, 2015:

• How Well Are Arabic Websites Archived?: A exploration of the rate at which Arabic websites are archived.
• What’s in a (top-level domain) name?: What motivates individuals and organisations to register their site in a particular national space?
• Jim Sutton: Dilemmas and the digital age: “Ethics and technology, it seems, have an interesting future together.”
• Vanishing Canada: Why we’re all losers in Ottawa’s war on data: Records deleted, burned, tossed in Dumpsters. A Maclean’s investigation on the crisis in government data.
• Archiving a digital history: Preserving Penn State’s heritage one link at a time
• Enhancing the LOCKSS Technology: A summary of recent infrastructure enhancements to the LOCKSS Program.
• Freelance journalist sends interviews aggregation website to ‘digital Dignitas’ seven years after launch: Another example of how ephemeral the Internet can be
• We want YOUR ideas for the IIPC General Assembly 2016: Preparations for the IIPC General Assembly 2016 are under way, and your input is needed!

Weekly web archiving roundup: September 18, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of September 18, 2015:

• Writing WARCs (Kristinn Sigurðsson): A call for better library support for the WARC format
• TVEyes Wide Shut: Ruling on Broadcast Archiving Service Undermines Fair Use (Vera Ranieri): A court decision in Fox News’s case against TVEyes has troubling implications for innovative uses of media
• Copyright Fair Use: 1 Win, 1 Maybe and Two Losses for TVEyes (Ira Sacks and Erika Stallings): Another take on the TVEyes court case decision
• 10 Years of the Web Archive–What have we saved: A talk given by Andy Jackson, Web Archiving Technical Lead at the IIPC General Assembly 2015
• The Internet Is Failing The Website Preservation Test (Ron Miller): A journalist explores the impact of “Internet memory loss”
• When using an archive could put it in danger (Peter Webster): A Conservative party episode in the UK illustrates how a wider understaning of web archiving could make archived material more vulnerable
• IIT Humanities Professor Discusses What Happens To Our Data Once We Die (Karis Hustad): Professor Mel Hogan will teach a class this fall on death, memories, and decay in the digital world
• What does the web remember of its deleted past? (Dr. Anat Ben-David): “On March 30 2010, the country-code top-level domain of the former Yugoslavia, .yu, was deleted from the Internet…”

Web Archiving Roundtable Poll Results

The Web Archiving Roundtable conducted an informal poll of our membership to gather feedback on the proposed affinity group changes. We had 41 respondents in the 2 weeks the poll was open, expressing a diversity of opinions.

 The results of the poll were forwarded to the SAA Council on September 16th for consideration during their deliberations on this issue.

Web Archiving Roundtable Membership Poll

Weekly web archiving roundup: September 10, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of September 10, 2015:

• Playing at Web Archiving: Why not use a interactive fiction engine to built a “web archiving simulator” that takes you through the core web archiving life-cycle?
• Cooking Up a Solution to Link Rot: Sixty-six to seventy-three percent of web addresses in the footnotes of three Harvard law journals and nearly 50 percent of web addresses in U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 1996 to 2012 suffered from reference rot.
• The Story of How the Internet Came to India–An Insider’s Account: On August 15, 1995, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) launched public Internet access in India. IBNLive is commemorating 20 years of the Internet in India with a special series.
• Beginner’s Guide to Web Archives, Part 3: Coming to the end of his short time working on web archives at the British Library, science-policy intern Peter Spooner reflects on the process of creating a web archive special collection.
• So You Want to Get Started in Web Archiving? Fear not, there are a few places to visit to get a quick sense of what’s going on!
• LANL’s Time Travel Portal, Part 1 and Part 2: The Time Travel portal, launched in February 2015, provides cross-system discovery of Mementos.
• Viral Content in the UK Domain: A look at how the web archive of the UK Domain approaches malware.
• Using Mathematica to Plot Locations Mentioned in Web Archives: What we could do with Mathematica 10’s (relatively) new geographic visualization services?
• Soft Launch of WebArchives.ca: WebArchives.ca provides access to the University of Toronto’s Archive-It Collection of Canadian Political Parties and Political Interest Groups, which they have been collecting since late 2005.