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: March 18, 2015

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

• “Email, Social Media and Website Archiving for Beginners“, by Lisa Snider.  April Webinar–Email, Social Media and Website Archiving for Beginners: An Archival View for Librarians.

• Memento Hackathon, from Librecat.  Overview of the two day Hackathon event at Ghent University Library where technologists from all over Europe gathered to explore time travel using the Memento protocol presented by Herbert Van de Sompel and Harihar Shankar from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Slides are available.

• “France – UK: complementary views on web archiving“, from Sabilne Hartmann – UK Webarchive Blog.  Overview of the collecting practices of the UK and France to build their holdings of government records and represent their presence on the web.

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 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: December 10, 2014

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of December 10, 2014:

• “Archives, Access, and the Sounds of New York City: An Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith“, from Brian Fauteux. Interview includes some interesting web archiving concepts.

• “Exploding ARC Files with Warcbase“, from Ian Milligan. Warcbase is an open-source platform for managing web archives built on Hadoop and HBase.

• “URI agnostic deduplication on content discovered at crawl time“, from Kristinn Sigurðsson . In his last blog post, Kris showed that URI agnostic duplicates accounted for about 5% of all duplicates by volume (bytes) and about 11% by URI count. But this is limited to looking up content digests that had been discovered in a previous crawl.

Weekly web archiving roundup: November 12, 2014

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of November 12, 2014:

• “Digital History Seminar – Interrogating the archived UK web: Historians and Social Scientists Research Experiences“, from Peter Webster, Richard Deswarte, and Gareth Millwood. The UK Web Archive has partnered with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) in the project ‘Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities Project’ (BUDDAH) where a new research interface is being developed to further academic research into web archives. Peter Webster introduces Web Archiving, the BUDDAH project and the new research interface, and Gareth Millward and Richard Deswarte relate their experiences in using the resource to research the history of disabled people and accessibility on the WWW, and Euroscepticism. Seminar includes streaming video as well as slides from the individual speakers.

• “Digital Archive Lets Web Surfers Travel Back in Time“, by Elizabeth Palermo.  In honor of the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web this year, Stanford created a digital archive of its bygone Web pages, some of which were among the earliest pages ever published on the Web.

• “The Internet Archive Has Brought Back 900 Classic Arcade Games That You Can Play For Free“; the Internet Archive has brought back some 900 classic 80’s arcade games.

• “Project brings more than 900 vintage arcade games to Web,” by Lisa Respers France.  The Internet Archive, which is a nonprofit founded to build an Internet library, now has the Internet Arcade, where gamers with a taste for nostalgia can go at it for free.

Weekly web archiving roundup: November 6, 2014

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of November 6, 2014:

• “Archiving the Web: A Case Study from the University of Victoria“, from Corey Davis. This article will provide an overview of web archiving and explore the considerable legal and technical challenges of implementing a web archiving initiative at a research library, using the University of Victoria’s implementation of Archive-it, a web archiving service from the Internet Archive, as a case study, with a special focus on capturing complex, interactive websites that scholars are creating to disseminate their research in new ways.

Weekly web archiving roundup: October 30, 2014

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of October 30, 2014:

• “Explore the oldest U.S. website“, from Nicholas Taylor. The website amounts to but five pages of the thousands of historical SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory web pages and related assets from 1991-1999 that we are making accessible.

• “All together now: NYARC and the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship”, from Karl-Rainer Blumenthal.  NDSR blog post introducing a model of collaborative digital preservation among institutional and funding partners working towards NYARC’s effort to archive and manage specialist art historical resources on the web.

• “IIPC General Assembly 2015 Call for Papers“, from IIPC.  The International Internet Preservation Consortium is seeking proposals for presentations and workshops at the next conference and general assembly to be held at Stanford University in California, USA on the 27 and 28 April 2015. The theme is “Innovation, connection and co-operation in web data”.

• “Call to participate: Privacy Issues in Web Harvesting Survey“; Heather Oswald conducting survey on current best practices for web harvesting by archival professionals as they pertain to privacy, for Master’s degree in Archival Studies at Clayton State University.

• “The Many Uses of Rhizome’s New Social Media Preservation Tool“, from Benjamin Sutton.  How do you capture and preserve the experience of a new media artwork created on Twitter in 2010? How do you re-create the design and feel of Twitter’s interface at that time, and populate that interface with users’ contemporaneous profile photos? These are the types of questions that New York’s digital art nonprofit Rhizome is trying to answer in the development of Colloq, a new conservation tool that will help artists preserve social media projects not only by archiving them, but by replicating the exact look and layout of the sites used, and the interactions with other users.

• “The True Cost of YouTube’s Library of Everything“, by Michael Sugarman.  As a business, YouTube is perhaps the grand archive of the information age, but for as long as we continue to ignore its status as a black market, or more appropriately, a free market system quickly growing out of hand, we ignore the fact that Google desires to exploit its lack of accountability to a much greater extent than hoarding all of the world’s music and film.

• “The race to archive Twitpic before 800 million pictures vanish“, by Pierre Chauvin. Right now, a collective of Internet archivists and programmers is trying to do the impossible: save more than 800 million pictures uploaded to the Twitter photo-sharing service Twitpic before they disappear down the memory hole after the company’s scheduled shutdown on October 25.

• “Twitpic Data Will Stay Alive “For Now” Thanks To An Agreement With Twitter“, by Jordan Crook. And in a somewhat happy turn of events, Twitpic has announced that it has reached an agreement with Twitter to keep Twitpic photos and links alive, giving Twitter control over the domain and the full photo archive.

Weekly web archiving roundup: July 9, 2014

Weekly web archiving roundup for the week of July 9, 2014:

• “How much of the UK’s HTML is valid?“, by Jason Webber. A lot of the HTML in websites held by the UK Web Archive might not be valid according to W3C specifications. However it might not make much of a difference.

• “Web Archiving and Preserving the Performing Arts in the Digital Age“, by Gavin Frome. The Library of Congress is working to preserve websites related to American performing art.

• “In Philadelphia, the Internet Archive is assembling a new way to monitor campaigns on TV“, by Caroline O’Donovan. The Internet Archive is launching a project to record all television news and political ads which air on broadcast stations in Philadelphia before the upcoming Congressional elections.