Archive-It Partner News, December 2019
December 3rd, 2019
by the Archive-It team
Community News
Winter, Milner Library, Illinois State University
Next open call and year-in-review with Archive-It
All are welcome and invited to join the next open call with the Internet Archive’s Director of Web Archiving, Jefferson Bailey, and Archive-It’s Senior Program Manager, Lori Donovan, at 10AM Pacific (1PM Eastern, 6PM GMT) on Wednesday, January 22. Join us for a review of developments in 2019 and plans for 2020 by pointing your web browser to: https://zoom.us/j/392319560.
Have your say!
All Archive-It partners are welcome and encouraged to participate in the State of the WARC Survey. This short survey takes a snapshot of preservation practices, desires, and suggestions among web archiving partners, so Internet Archive staff are eager to hear your feedback and ideas. Please share with us before the survey closes Friday evening.
Local to global web archiving
On our blogroll of new collections, projects, and partners:
Measuring the reach of local online news – Updates from the Archive-It partners at the University of Minnesota, Duke University, and the Internet Archive on their research into online local news with new web archive data, supported by the Democracy Fund.
Opening the House Foreign Affairs Committee web archive – Partner Mark Bilby introduces a new collection for research into current events in American foreign policy and Ukraine.
Trans-Europe Web Archiving Express – Dispatches from recent meetings with global Archive-It and Internet Archive Web Services partners across Europe.
The Whole Earth Web Archive – An experimental new portal to archived websites from 50 smaller nations around the world by the Internet Archive’s web team.
Tech and Training
Untitled, Milner Library, Illinois State University
Integrating Archive-It and ArchivesSpace
Archive-It and ArchivesSpace will co-host an introductory webinar and open discussion about sharing data between the two platforms on Wednesday, December 4, at 11AM Pacific (2PM Eastern, 7PM GMT). You can find more information about the event and join us here.
Archive-It Advanced Training webinars
In case you missed it, the Teaching Archive-It webinar with Archive-It partners from New York University and Library and Archives Canada is now online here. The series returns on Tuesday, February 18, with another partner-led panel discussion of collection development policies for web archives. Register here to join us and learn from your colleagues.
A warm welcome to our newest partners!
Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
National Agricultural Library
OCLC
Toledo Lucas County Public Library
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
University of Cincinnati