Archive-It Partner News, October 2021
October 20th, 2021
by the Archive-It team
New Community Webs partners
60+ public libraries and cultural heritage organizations from across the US, Canada, and internationally have joined Community Webs to document local history and the lives of their patrons through web archiving. Meet them and learn much more about the program here on the Internet Archive blog.
Community News
ICYMI: Annual meeting materials are online
Thanks to all who joined our second virtual Archive-It Partner Meeting! Missed us live? You can catch up anytime with recordings and recaps, starting here on the Archive-It blog.
The Internet Archive Turns 25
The Internet Archive is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week! Join founder and Digital Librarian, Brewster Kahle, on Thursday, October 21 at 6PM Pacific for a virtual celebration featuring talks from author Cory Doctorow, national speech champion Anneteke Adoga, and a performance from San Francisco Symphony’s Principal Trumpet, Mark Inouye. Register online for free here!
Seeking Vault Digital Preservation Service Pilot Partners
Interested in preserving data with the Internet Archive’s not-for-profit, self-owned and operated infrastructure? We’re still seeking additional partners to join our ongoing pilot to test a new suite of digital preservation services. All data deposited by pilot partners will be preserved and retrievable in perpetuity. For more information and to get in touch, please fill out our interest form.
Last Call: COVID-19 Web Archiving Campaign
Archive-It will phase out its cost-sharing program for new web archive collections related to the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of 2021. Please reach out to us as soon as possible if you will need to increase your data at a discounted rate. Learn more at: COVID-19 Web Archiving Special Campaign.
What we’re reading:
Interview with Zakiya Collier: Schomburg Digital Archivist and Community Webs partner Zakiya Collier discusses the #SchomburgSyllabus project, which archives Black-authored and Black-related online educational resources to document Black studies, movements, and experiences in the 21st century.
The Archive of Tomorrow: The National Library of Scotland announces funding for a project to explore new possibilities for metadata, access, and research with a Health & Misinformation web archive.
Spanish Web Archive: Alicia Pastrana García and José Carlos Cerdán Medina from the National Library of Spain share how their archives were used as a training field for Natural Language Processing models.
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
ICYMI: Web Archiving for Beginners training
Earlier this month, the Digital Preservation Coalition hosted a 4-hour online training covering the main concepts and technologies involved with web archiving. If you’re a member, you can catch up anytime with recordings on their past events page here.
Archive-It 7.1 Release
Archive-It upgraded its web archiving software suite to version 7.1 last month, including improvements to web crawling and reporting, account management, and significant upgrades to archival replay. Read the announcement for more details. In case you missed the live release webinar for Archive-It’s Wayback software improvements, you can also catch up and watch the recording here.
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A warm welcome to our newest partners!
Advance Democracy, Inc.
African Historical Graphics Archive
Associació Memòria i Historia de Manresa
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
General Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church
The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
Santa Clara University
Saving Political Websites
United Way of Greater New Haven