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: June, 2019

This month the Sunlight Foundation, an organization advocating for open government, published an article on the weaknesses in Federal Agencies’ archival practices.

Catch the livestream recording from the IIP Web Archiving Conference.

You can now take a look at the slides from Ian Milligan & Nick Ruest’s presentation on the Archives Unleashed Cloud Project at IIPC Web Archiving Conference.

Both paper and presentation slides on Judging Visual Correspondence in Web Archives are now available. This presentation was done by Brenda Reyes Ayala at the ACM/IEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL).

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University has posted a trip report on the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL).

Rhizome recently announced an opportunity for Webrecorder users and community members to financially support Webrecorder, some of the benefits include full range of tools and expanded storage for web collections.

Check out this i-D magazine article on the case for archiving our digital lives.

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: 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: 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.

Handy New Publication: Web Archiving Use Cases

A very useful document created by Emily Reynolds.  Provides descriptions of various use cases and links to examples.  I’ll definitely be using this in future presentations!  –Tessa

Web Archiving Use Cases

Archive-It announces Web Archiving Life Cycle Model

Read the announcement on the Archive-It blog!

“The Archive-It team is excited to publish our first white paper:  The Web Archiving Life Cycle Model. With this paper we hope to share web archiving best practices and processes with organizations interested in developing and/or expanding their web archiving initiatives.”