Archive-It Partner News, November 2020
November 23rd, 2020
by the Archive-It team
Community News
Photo by Claire Moclock / Senator John Heinz History Center
COVID-19 web archives take shape
Archive-It partners continue to collect and preserve the stories of a global pandemic in their local communities. To learn what they collect and how, start with the summary here on the Archive-It blog and dive deeper with coverage of these new collections:
Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle: Archiving a pandemic: Preserving evidence of how Jewish Pittsburgh is coping
Sonoma Index-Tribune: ‘Sonoma Responds’ archive program launches online
American Libraries: Collecting Coronavirus Stories
Journal of the Medical Library Association: The National Library of Medicine Global Health Events web archive, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic collecting
ICYMI: Annual meeting materials are online
Thanks to all who joined the first virtual Archive-It Partner Meeting! Missed us live? You can catch up anytime with recordings and recaps, starting here on the Archive-It blog.
We’re hiring!
Check out the Internet Archive’s job board for more information about openings with Archive-It and the Web & Data Services team.
Tech and Training
Learn more about web archiving tech
Want to pop the hood on Archive-It’s engine and learn how it runs? We’re kicking off a new series of blog posts that will do just that, starting with an introduction to “Brozzler”–the high fidelity collecting tool for the interactive web. Have suggestions for future topics? Please share them here!
Data budget tracking improvements
The Archive-It web application now includes some descriptive visual improvements for data budget control and tracking. Read the forum announcement to learn more.
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A warm welcome to our newest partners!
American Museum of Natural History
Ausglass (The Australian Association of Glass Artists)
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives
Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada
Evanston History Center
Invisible Histories Project
Jewish Theological Seminary
KRIA – The Icelandic Constitution Archives
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Senator Mike Enzi
UC Davis, School of Education
University of Notre Dame
University of Texas at Austin, Dept of Germanic Studies