Archive-It Partner News, July 2021
July 19th, 2021
by the Archive-It team
Save the Date!
The Archive-It Partner Meeting returns on Wednesday, September 29! Visit the meeting’s homepage for the call for proposals, important dates, and more information.
This annual conference brings Archive-It partners and peers together to share the year’s web archiving news, insights, and developments. Building on the success of the 2020 online program, this year’s meeting will include virtual speaker panels with interactive Q&A segments.
Community News
Community Webs joins DPLA
The Internet Archive is joining the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to share metadata from 700+ and growing public web archive collections curated by the Community Webs partners in local history and public libraries. Read the announcement to learn more about this significant step forward in access to web archives.
There’s still time for public libraries and community memory institutions around the world to join Community Webs. Apply here by August 2nd for access to subsidized web archiving resources and training with a new cohort of your peers this fall.
Preserving Web-Based Art History & Culture
The Internet Archive and the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) will bring 30+ American art and museum libraries together to collaborate on web archive collections with a generous preservation and access grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Read the announcement for full details and fill out the participation form to join us if you collect art resources.
Quarterly web and digital preservation update
You are invited to the quarterly open call with Archive-It and Internet Archive Web & Data Services. Join us for updates, questions, and conversation on Wednesday, July 21, at 10AM Pacific, 1PM Eastern, 5PM GMT. All are welcome! Point your web browser here at call time to join.
What we’re reading:
Synoptic web archiving: Partner Silvia Sevilla shares insights from preserving web publications across 24 languages for the European Union.
Reporting from IIPC: Web archivists Jillian Lohndorf and Tanya Ulmer summarize the presentations by partners and friends at the annual conference of the International Internet Preservation Consortium.
Tech and Training
Archive-It search results in Primo
Primo users can integrate web archives into their discovery layer’s search results. Read the short post by the developers at Ex Libris to learn how you can apply this upgrade with a little copy-and-paste right out of their code template.
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A warm welcome to our newest partners!
Armenian Heritage Archives
Augustana University Mikkelsen Library
Museum of Lennox and Addington
Sisters of Social Service
Sonoma State University
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