Archive-It Partner News, January 2021
January 14th, 2021
by the Archive-It team
Community News
New opportunity for public libraries
Deadline approaching! We’re inviting 150+ more public libraries to join the Community Webs cohort of web archiving partners. With generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the program is expanding nationwide to provide free web archiving and technical services, education, professional development, and funding to build community history web archives documenting civic life and especially communities traditionally under-represented in the historical record.
If you are or know a public librarian interested in joining the program, you can review the full call for applications and the program FAQs. Online applications are being accepted through Sunday, January 31, 2021.
Have questions? Register here to join the open webinar Wednesday, January 20, and learn much more about the program.
Quarterly update and year-in-review
Join the next open call and 2020-in-review with the Internet Archive staff and Archive-It partners on Wednesday, January 20, at 10AM Pacific, 1PM Eastern, 6PM GMT. These quarterly open calls include the latest updates and discussion about web archiving and digital preservation technologies and service developments. All are welcome! Point your web browser here at call time to join.
What we’re reading:
Nature: What are COVID archivists keeping for tomorrow’s historians?
National Post: 2020, the year you want to forget? Archivists say not so fast
Digital Repository of Ireland: Collecting in a Crisis: Rapid Response Web and Social Media Archiving
Tech and Training
Automating web archive preservation
In a new Archive-It blog post, Head of Digital Stewardship Adriane Hanson walks readers through the automated processes that the University of Georgia Libraries have adopted to ingest WARC files and related metadata into preservation storage. Their scripts are open for your adaptation and reuse.
Best practices for social media archiving
In case you missed it, the latest Archive-It Advanced Training webinar is available to view anytime here. Web archivists Jillian Lohndorf and Raven Germain review the latest advice for Archive-It partners collecting web content from Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
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A warm welcome to our newest partners!
American Academy of Pediatrics
Art Practical
DePauw University
Ethereum Foundation
Mercer University Law School Library
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA)
Office of U.S. Senator Cory Gardner
Office of U.S. Senator Kamala Harris
Office of U.S. Senator Tom Udall
Rutgers University
Sierra Club
Stanford University Special Collections
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget
U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging