Weekly web archiving roundup: June 4, 2015

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

• “School Board Meetings to Go Live“, by Rita Robinson. The Laguna Beach Unified School District board voted 3-1 Tuesday to stream public meetings online. The board approved $50,000 for equipment and technology for live-stream-webcasting and archiving school board meetings on the district’s website.

• “Newly-Minted Librarians and Web Archives“, by Nora Ohnishi. Guest post by Nora Ohnishi, a former intern with the Web Archiving Team at the Library of Congress.

• “Are You Doing Enough to Prevent Link Rot?“, by Ernie Smith. Organizations and universities alike have been banding together to prevent important-yet-dated documents from disappearing entirely online.

• “How Broken Hyperlinks Are Screwing Up Science“, by Chris Mills. For most of us, a hyperlink 404ing is a problem fixable with a quick visit to the Wayback Machine (or maybe just taking a walk away from the computer and reflecting on the importance of cat GIFs). But for academics, broken links present a more serious issue.

• “Cutting the cost of digitising the news“.  A new cost-effective alternative for large-scale newspaper digitisation is being launched by DL Consulting.

 

 

Weekly web archiving roundup: May 28, 2015

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

• “MoMA.org Turns 20: Archiving Two Decades of Exhibition Sites“, by Seth Persons. Blog post discussing the NYARC team’s efforts to archive MoMA’s online presence since the beginning of 2014 and some of the challenges these sites pose.

• “A New Interface and New Web Archive Content at Loc.gov“, by Abbie Grotke. Recently the Library of Congress launched a significant amount of new Web Archive content on the Library’s Web site, as a part of a continued effort to integrate the Library’s Web Archives into the rest of the loc.gov web presence.

• “The K-12 Web Archiving Program: Preserving the Web from a Youthful Point of View“, by Butch Lazorchak and Cheryl Lederle. If you believe the Web (and who doesn’t believe everything they read on the Web?), it boastfully celebrated its 25th birthday last year. Twenty-five years is long enough for the first “children of the Web” to be fully-grown adults, just now coming of age to recognize that the Web that grew up around them has irrevocably changed.

• “In sticker art, a universe exists between art for art’s sake and commercial promotion“, by Andy Sturdevant. Compared to the ephemerality of the Internet, the ephemerality of the humble street sticker seems geologic in scale.

• “The race to preserve disappearing data“, by Bina Venkataraman. Vint Cerf, a founding father of the Internet, warned at a recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that our era is in danger of becoming a “digital dark age,” from which we’ll leave our progeny too little information to grasp their history. But who is responsible for bearing the cost of preserving digital artifacts and knowledge for the future? And how do we determine what’s worth saving?

Weekly web archiving roundup: May 21, 2015

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

• “NLI announces marriage equality referendum web archiving project“. The National Library of Ireland (NLI) has introduced that it is archiving websites associated to the upcoming marriage equality referendum.

• “Harvard Library Innovation Lab wins a 2015 Webby“. Perma.cc, a project that takes on the problem of “link rot” or broken or defunct links in scholarship, has won the prestigious Webby Award for best law site of 2015.

• “Dance Heritage Coalition Receives Knight Foundation Prototype Fund Grant“. Dance Heritage Coalition (DHC) today announced a $35,000 award from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of the Knight Prototype Fund to develop “Culture Conversations,” a prototype for linking born-digital media and related arts writing.

Web Archiving Roundtable professional development

May 21, 2-3pm (EDT)/11am-noon (PDT), two co-authors,  Alexis Antracoli, Records Management Archivist at Drexel University and Kristen Yarmey, Associate Professor and  Digital Services Librarian at the University of Scranton will share their experiences and engage in discussion about their web archiving projects.  The work they will be talking about is covered in “Capture All the URLs: First Steps in Web Archiving” (http://palrap.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/palrap/article/view/67).

Kristen will discuss her and her colleagues’ first steps in web archiving at  the University of Scranton, including making the case to campus stakeholders, finding funding, choosing Archive-It as well as selecting content and seeds to capture. Alexis will talk about establishing policies and implementing QA procedures.  Both Alexis and Kristen will provide insights on stumbling blocks, lessons learned, and future plans.  Plenty of time will be allotted for questions and discussion.

The link to access the webinar (via Blackboard Collaborate) is: https://learn.dcollege.net/webapps/bb-collaborate-BBLEARN/launchSession/guest?uid=9822dd73-36fe-433f-9451-ae654c703387.  It might be necessary to install some software before getting full access to the webinar but once the required steps are taken, one will see  a phone number and access code that will allow access to the audio portion of the session.

May 22, noon-1pm (EDT)/9-10am (PDT), Martin Klein, Programmer/Analyst at UCLA Research Library, will present on an article he co-authored, “Scholarly Context Not Found: One in Five Articles Suffers from Reference Rot” (DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0115253).  This presentation was originally scheduled for May 15 but Google Hangout failed us that day so we are trying a new platform (Adobe Connect).  The link to access the webinar is: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/e-economy

The goal for this presentation is to share the insights in this article with archivists with an interest in web archiving but who might not feel like they have enough technical background to follow some of the finer points of the paper.  We are looking forward to having the information in this paper shared widely including with people who might not get a chance to read the whole paper.  Martin’s talk will be 35-45 minutes followed by 15-20 minutes for questions.

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Weekly web archiving roundup: May 13, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of May 13 2015:

• “The trouble with reference rot“, by Jeffrey M. Perkel. Nature article on link/reference rot in scholarly publications and how the Memento team is attempting to provide a solution by allowing users access to all of the saved versions of a given web page.

• “Users, Use Cases and Adapting Web Archiving to Achieve Better Results“, by Michael Neubert. Blog post on capturing large sites at the Library of Congress.

• “Going, going, gone: The imperative for archiving the web“, by Jackie Dooley. Results of recent OCLC conversations with members of the OCLC Research Library Partnership about web archiving issues.

• “Tweets and Deletes“. Archives are full of silences. Archivists try to surface these silences by making appraisal decisions about what to collect and what not to collect.

Weekly web archiving roundup: April 29, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of April 29, 2015:

• “How to archive and download your Google Search history“, by Kavita Iyer. Google has started a new feature which will enable users to download their entire search history.

• “Nick Knight on SHOWstudio’s Beginnings and the Early Days of Online Fashion“, by Veronique Hyland. Interesting article about preserving early online fashion shoots in video form.

 

Weekly web archiving roundup: April 23, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of April 23, 2015:

• “One Size Does Not Always Fit All“, by Michael Neubert. Discussion of the web archiving projects of the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens, as well as the inherent challenges for the workflows of a small staff.

• “MSU’s student newspaper to post website with 120 years of Exponent archives“. Montana State University student newspaper goes online with all issues of paper.

• “MirrorWeb Unveils Digital Archiving Solution“.  MirrorWeb is a type of enterprise web archiving tool that captures websites, blogs, and social media.

• “Smarsh Simplifies Web Archiving for Point West Credit Union“. Smarsh press release about their web archiving services.

• “Mobile, Office 365 and Social Media Archiving from Metalogix“. Metalogix press release about a product for social media archiving, among other things.

• “Metalogix Moves Into Social Media Archiving“, by David Roe. More Metalogix info, but expanded as a story here.

Weekly web archiving roundup: April 15, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of April 15, 2015:

• “Snapchat’s Non-Vanishing Message: You Can Trust Us“, from Backchannel. An interview with Snapchat tech executives.

• “Archiving Nigerian History Of Film, Socio-Cultural Values Through Digital“, from Oludare Richards.  Professionals and stakeholders within the Nigerian film industry gathered recently at the Silverbird Galleria, Lagos for a pre-launch event tagged “Digitizing the History of Film in Nigeria project – with the theme “Making the Link: Technology and Values in Film making.

• “Announcing WebPreserver – Collect Web & Social Media as Legally Admissible Evidence“.  WebPreserver provides a Chrome web browser plugin and web-based platform that makes collecting authenticated snapshots of websites, blogs and social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ easy, secure and legally admissible.

Weekly web archiving roundup: April 8, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of April 8, 2015:

• “No wonder NM lawmakers frown on keeping webcasts“. “Archived webcasts of [Albuquerque] Senate floor and Senate Rules Committee action during the 2014 legislative session show a deception unfolding that led to the Legislature’s approval of a questionable sale of a building in a historic district near the Capitol.”

• “Facebook’s ‘On This Day’ seeks to retrieve memories“, from Caitlin Dewey.  Facebook is the latest to get into the nostalgia game with a feature called “On This Day,” which will surface past status updates, photos and posts you’ve been tagged in to a designated page.

• “CLOCKSS and CHORUS Partner to Support Perpetual Public Access to US Funded Research Articles“, from Newswise.  The CLOCKSS Archive has entered into an agreement with CHORUS to support the archiving, preservation, and perpetual public access to articles reporting on US federally funded research.

• “Indiana’s governor seems to have a long history of opposing gay rights“, from Colin Campbell.  A BuzzFeed reporter noted on Tuesday that a web capture in the Wayback Machine shows Pence, a former congressman, opposing efforts to protect gays from discrimination and supporting “assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behaviour” in 2000.

Weekly web archiving roundup: April 2, 2015

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of April 2, 2015:

• “Why are we trying to create Ready Player One’s terrifying, nostalgia-fueled dystopia?“, by Adi Robertson.  In Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel Ready Player One, the narrator enters the virtual reality world of OASIS to visit a hollow planet filled with thousands of simulated arcades. “Archaide” contains a copy of every coin-operated game ever made, all on perfect simulations of the original cabinet. That’s not the kind of thing we’ll see any time soon, but if you go online right this minute, you can play thousands of classic arcade, Atari, and MS-DOS games, emulated in a web browser and hosted by the Internet Archive.