2023 WAS Annual Section Meeting Recap

The Web Archiving Section hosted a joint meeting with the Preservation and International Archival Affairs sections on June 20th, 2023. 

The meeting featured speakers from Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO). When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Ukraine’s online cultural heritage was at risk. Three library professionals from around the world joined together to create SUCHO, and have been working to create a digital backup of Ukrainian cultural heritage websites from museums, libraries, and public archives and their digital offerings, such as 3D collections and online activities for children.

SUCHO Coordinator Anna Kijas (Tufts University) and a panel of volunteers discussed how SUCHO was created and gave an overview of the project, including their goals for the future and what we as fellow Archivists can do to support their work.

Short section business meeting was also part of this event. Business news included: 

Summary of Activities:

Coffee Chat no. 1: “Research Use of Web Archives”
Speaker: Dr. Ian Milligan,  professor of history and Associate Vice-President, Research Oversight and Analysis at the University of Waterloo (150 registrants)

Coffee Chat no. 2: “The Rise of Collaboration Spaces at Work and the Challenges for Archivists”
Speaker: Julien Masanès, CEO of Hanzo Archives (121 registrants)

Outreach Statistics:

• 7 blog posts from November 2022-May 2023
• 3 international guest bloggers
• 782 blog views from August 2022-June 2023
• 30 tweets between November 2022-May 2023 with over 6,500 views
• 75 likes
• 50 retweets

2023-2024 Steering Committee Election:

Candidates for all sections now open, vote by July 17.

SAA Annual Meeting Informal Virtual Conversation Lounge: July 27 from 5:30pm-6:30pm to discuss the real-life trauma impacts of collecting web archives.

Virtual Joint Section Meeting: Web Archiving & Performing Arts

SAA’s Web Archiving Section and Performing Arts Section will hold a virtual joint section meeting on Thursday, August 11, 2022 from 1-2:30 pm CT.

The steering committees invite colleagues to present case studies (up to 10 min) about the intersections between special collections, web archives, and born-digital records in all areas of the performing arts. Possible topics could include:

• Projects and workflows for archiving web presences and born-digital records of performing arts organizations, artists, and companies, including social media
• How and why researchers use and interact with performing arts web archives
• Data computation, analysis, and visualization projects based on performing arts web archives and born-digital records
• Collection development policy initiatives to incorporate web archives into performing arts special collections
• Including performing arts web archives in finding aids
• Reference and engagement work around performing arts web archives and born-digital records
• Web archiving and post-custodial performing arts archives
• Performing arts web archives design for mixed audiences/diverse patrons

For consideration, please send a presentation title, brief description (100 words or less), and name(s) of presenter(s) to Performing Arts Section Co-Chair Cecily Marcus (cecily.marcus@mnhs.org) and Web Archiving Section Chair Melissa Wertheimer (melissa.wertheimer@gmail.com) by July 1, 2022.

Web Archiving Roundup: July, 2019

The Web Archiving and Metadata Digital Object Sections will hold a joint event during the SAA Annual Meeting in Austin, TX. Join us on Saturday, August 3rd for a debate on descriptive metadata and web archiving.

The 2019 Archive-It Partner Meeting coincides with SAA’s Annual Meeting, registration is still open.

Graphic Designer Sam Henri Gold has been archiving Apple ads from the 1970s to the present, you can take a look at the archive directly from the article.

ArchiveSpark 3.0 is now available, take a look a the updates in GitHub.

Check out this article about a High School student’s experience working for the Archives Unleashed team.

The latest issue of the Newsletter from the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods includes an article on research challenges using web archives for social research.

Registration is still open for the Specialized Data Curation Workshop hosted by the Data Curation Network at Washington University in St. Louis.

The Digital Preservation Coalition is crowd-sourcing a list of endangered digital materials. Nominations close on Friday August 30th, 2019.

Web Archiving Roundup: May, 2019

UPDATE – Join the ALCTS Metadata Interest Group Meeting during ALA Annual 2019 for a presentation and Q&A on the Library of Congress Web Archiving Program on Sunday, June 23, 2019, 9:00-10:00AM at the Marriott Marquis.

Now accepting nominations for the SAA Web Archiving Section’s 2019-2020 Steering Committee: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/web-archiving-section/now-accepting-2019-2020-steering-committee-nominations.

Registration for the IIPC Web Archiving Conference ends May 24. 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).

For members of the Digital Preservation Coalition, the DPC Web Archiving & Preservation Task Force is inviting delegates to a meeting on July 18, in London. The meeting is free for DPC members, registration ends July 10.

IIPC Content Development Group is asking for contributions to their Climate Change Collection, and their Artificial Intelligence Collection.

Ben Els, Digital Curator at the National Library of Luxembourg, gives us a glimpse not the effort to capture the Luxembourg elections.

Seth Denbo, Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Initiatives at the American Historical Association, strikes a cord on the challenges of scale in an article titled Data Overload.

The Atlantic has an article on the implication of AI vacuum cleaners from tech companies.

You can now read the paper presented at the 2018 World Library and Information Congress by the Library of Congress, the paper is titled Institutions as Social Media Collector: Lessons Learned from the Library of Congress.

The National Library of the Netherlands has recently launched a collection of archived websites from the Chinese Community in the Netherlands.

ECAL (École cantonale d’art de Lausanne) has launched a website called Information Mesh celebrating the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web.

Web Archiving Roundup: April, 2019

The Library of Congress Digital Collections Development Coordinator positioncloses soon (May 1^st)!

Archive-It is hosting a training webinar on Web Archiving Systems API (WASAPI). Zoom in on Wednesday, May 29^that 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern.

This one came through my Archive-It listserv this morning; a webinar about WASAPI on May 29:  https://support.archive-it.org/hc/en-us/community/posts/360043527372-New-training-webinar-The-Web-Archiving-Systems-API-WASAPI-.Register here.

Registration for the Society of American Archivists Annual Meetingis now open. 

The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) has published a list of accepted workshopsand tutorials. 

You can now watch Michael L. Nelson’s keynote “Web Archives at the Nexus of Good Fakes and Flawed Originals”at CNIs April meeting. 

Rhizome presents “The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics,” an exhibition using web archives as art. If you happen to be in New York, you can see this exhibit at the New Museum until May 26.

The National Library of China will archive 200 billion Weibo postsin a project to preserve China’s digital heritage.

Katie Cuyler, Librarian at University of Alberta Libraries, on archiving Alberta’s climate change datain danger to disappear with the change of government. You can access the collection here.

Jason Scott, from TEXTFILES.COM, recently published The MySpace Dragon Hoard, a collection of 450,000 mp3s from MySpace between 2008-2010. These songs were gathered prior to the recent MySpace data loss.

Check out Karl Blumenthal’s trick to crawl special emojis from Twitter.

Some interesting food for thought from Stephen Dowling’s BBC article.

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.

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/).