Archive-It

DECEMBER 13, 2021

By Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist for Archive-It. Archive-It’s crawling machines churned with activity as our partners sought to preserve records of the microscopic forces moving their operations to makeshift home offices around the world. Archived blog post from the Queens Public Library’s collection.

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Archive-It

JUNE 16, 2022

In May 2021, the Society of American Archivists’ Web Archiving Section hosted a chat about web accessibility. Throughout the session, a recurring question that arose was how accessible web archives are. How accessible are archived websites? What we learned is that, in some ways, the web was more accessible than it is now!

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Archive-It

JULY 17, 2023

The San Diego Refugee Collection was the first of our website proposals selected by Archive-It in October 2019. To that end, we chose to archive the websites of nine locally based refugee organizations. Thanks to our Processing Archivist’s initiative and her development of the proposals, the Archive-it contest made it all possible!

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Archive-It

JULY 17, 2023

The San Diego Refugee Collection was the first of our website proposals selected by Archive-It in October 2019. To that end, we chose to archive the websites of nine locally based refugee organizations. Thanks to our Processing Archivist’s initiative and her development of the proposals, the Archive-it contest made it all possible!

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI, with its ability to understand natural language, allows the core work of the judiciary to completely rethink the production processes of analyzing, creating and archiving texts. The algorithm preserved the case history and gave users a comprehensive view of all the information for the case and where it originated.

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Archive-It

JANUARY 16, 2024

by Karl Blumenthal, Web Archivist The InfoTecarios podcast hosted a rich discussion about the opportunities, challenges, and new models for collaboratve digital scholarship using web archives with early adopters of the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH). Learn more about the (near!)

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Preservica

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Our Primo instance was already harvesting from our other systems (such as our image viewer Luna and our Archives Hub microsite) and we decided to try the same process with Preservica utilizing its OAI-PMH and APIs. One advantage of this method was the possibility of achieving a solution without the input of specialist developers.

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Archive-It

MAY 24, 2018

Partners, collaborators, and peers gathered this week for Describing Web Archives , the latest in Archive-It’s Advanced Training series of webinars , and the second (with Access to Archive-It Collections ) to invite web archivists to take the lead in demonstrating their approaches to access and discovery.

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Archive-It

MAY 12, 2022

A web capture from the Ukraine Crisis: 2014-2015 web archive announces the sanctioned forms and uses of state symbols in Crimea after Russian annexation. UC Berkeley Library’s Library Information Technology department contributed their Archive-It account to the effort, which now includes approximately 345 GB of data from 59 websites.

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Archive-It

JULY 8, 2021

The many services that we provide for the European institutions include production, editing, identification, printing, distribution, access, use and reuse, archiving and preservation. EU Web Archive. The concern for the preservation of EU web archives started in 2013. Then, we became an Archive-It partner.

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Archive-It

MARCH 26, 2020

by Jillian Lohndorf, Web Archivist for Archive-It. In particular, the Archive-It Advanced Training series of webinars features lessons, technology updates, and more tips and tricks from the Internet Archive’s staff and web archiving partners around the world! Descriptive practices for web archives varies widely.

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Archive-It

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As a Graduate Web Archiving Assistant during the 2020-21 academic year, I was tasked with evaluating the University of Illinois Archive-It partnership and creating a plan for its continued success. The answers to these questions dictate how to configure a web crawl and what an end user sees when they access the archives.

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CILIP

JUNE 27, 2023

The Facet Catalogue 2023 showcases a wide range of bestsellers and new titles from the world of librarianship, information management, archives and records management, data, and heritage. Download your copy today The year’s catalogue not only contains the newest books, but also has updated editions to some of the most popular titles.

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Archive-It

MAY 16, 2018

by the Archive-It team. Join us at the annual Archive-It Partner Meeting. We hope you can join us for an afternoon partner meeting on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 preceding ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2018 , the joint annual meeting of CoSA, NAGARA, and SAA. May 30: Beginners’ Web Archiving Workshop at METRO – New York, NY.

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Archive-It

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

by the Archive-It team. The Community Webs cohort of public librarians kicking off their program at the Internet Archive on November 3. Watch this space and the Archive-It blog for updates from the cohort and Internet Archive staff on their progress, lessons-learned, and new open educational resources. Community News.

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 10, 2019

by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist for Archive-It. Web archives can do the same. Archive-It is a platform that brings together different tools that have been developed to acquire, store, preserve, and share primary source material from the World Wide Web — a kind of “one stop shop” for web archiving tech.

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Archive-It

JANUARY 12, 2021

Adapted from my presentation of the same name at the Archive-It Partner Meeting on October 7, 2020. In this blog post, I’ll describe the University of Georgia Libraries’ almost entirely automated workflow for preserving a copy of our Archive-It content locally. Archive-It APIs. Why Keep a Local Copy?

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Archive-It

JUNE 5, 2018

Three librarians from two Archive-It partner institutions shared their web archiving insights and sought feedback from their local colleagues at the fourth annual Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference. by Caron Rollins, Matt Huculak, and Dana McFarland. Leo Tolstoy: First web archivist? The collaborations will continue.

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Archive-It

MARCH 1, 2023

We chose Human Rights as the focus of our first and largest thematic web archive collection due to the importance of human rights as a field of study at Columbia University, where we have two academic centers devoted to the subject: the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School; and the interdisciplinary Institute for the Study of Human Rights.

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Archive-It

JUNE 30, 2021

by Jillian Lohndorf and Tanya Ulmer, Web Archivists for Archive-It. The IIPC Web Archiving Conference (WAC) was held June 15-16 virtually , with pre-recorded presentations made available beforehand, and speakers gathered by topic for live question and answer sessions. The conference opened with remarks from Claude D.

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CILIP

MARCH 4, 2024

The event was hosted at the the Hive, a unique joint venture from the University of Worcester and Worcestershire County Council housing a public library, university library and archives in one environmentally friendly building. The day was made possible with sponsorship from CB Resourcing and WF Education.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 15, 2019

by the Archive-It team. As more and more organizations are involved in web archiving, we want to make sure that their networks are close and supportive. Both events featured program and technology updates from Internet Archive staff, news and case studies from Archive-It partners, and informal time for discussion and working groups.

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Archive-It

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

by Samantha Fritz, Project Manager, and Ian Milligan, Project Lead, for Archives Unleashed at the University of Waterloo. Archive-It provides a fantastic service to curate, collect, and preserve content from the Web. Enter the Archives Unleashed Project. Why do we care so much about Web Archives? Funded by the Andrew W.

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Archive-It

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

by Tammi Kim, Special Collections and Archives Technical Services Librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The staff at UNLV’s Special Collections and Archives were shocked and horri fied, and the impact of this tragic event has been shocking and surreal to the Las Vegas community.

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Preservica

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Ithaka S+R recently published a report based on findings from A*CENSUS II Archives Administrators Survey , which gathered data from 746 of the most senior archives leaders and decision-makers.

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Archive-It

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This blog post was adapted and modified from my presentation at the IIPC Web Archiving Conference on June 16, 2021. I had no prior web archiving experience, but the official NAHO website was scheduled to come down by the end of that year and needed a long-term home. Screenshot from the NAHO web archive.

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Archive-It

APRIL 12, 2021

by the Archive-It team. On April 7, 2021, the Internet Archive presented a discussion with Makiba J. Through her collaboration with the Internet Archive’s Community Webs program, she discussed how her work to document a protest movement led to her to build web archives related to the Black Diaspora.

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Preservica

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Read the full case study. Safeguarding our cultural and business records will ensure a high degree of access over time. It also allows our team to manage our information intelligently and efficiently.".

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Archives Blogs

MAY 29, 2018

Intrigued by the type of records held in the State Archives Collection, and the challenges in storing, preserving and making accessible our State’s official archives, UWA Lecturer Mark Sawyer suggested using the SRO as a “case study” and to have his first year architecture students develop proposed designs for a new SRO Search Room.

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Archive-It

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

By Jillian Lohndorf, Web Archivist for Archive-It. Archive-It partners can enable direct access to their captures, collection descriptions, and other related metadata beyond the default portal of archive-it.org, customizing where and how patrons find and explore their web archives. Full-text search. Description.

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Archive-It

MARCH 8, 2022

By Bridget Collings, Raven Germain, and Tanya Ulmer, Web Archivists for Archive-It. Many Archive-It partners are raising awareness against bias, stereotypes, and discrimination faced by women by documenting important feminist cultural heritage. The number that poured in during the next few days was in the thousands!

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Archive-It

JANUARY 16, 2019

You can now view the collection via Archive-It here: [link]. Archived presidential candidacy website of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Archive-It was interested in the proposal and we quickly signed a Memorandum of Understanding, giving us a defined allowance and time frame for the archiving of the websites.

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Once again, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) have joined forces to bring you another outstanding selection of speakers sharing case studies and presentations.

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In my first sit down with a fellow staff member to talk about the prospects for a web archive, we brainstormed how we could more completely capture the digital record of today’s community. We started by training just a few Information Services staff in one-on-one sessions and shared Archive-It training videos.

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Videos of 2013-2019 House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) hearings unavailable from C-SPAN are now available for public viewing from a new web archive curated by California State University, Fullerton. One can review the complete archive of home page versions collected in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine here: [link].

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Archive-It

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist for Archive-It. Archive-It partners and friends gathered online this week to discuss why they collect what they collect. Questions from their peers further helped all attendees to hone in on the specific objectives that make each web archive unique. UC San Diego.

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ChiefTech

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Friday, 14 September 2007 Avenue A | Razorfish Wiki Case Study OK. Now were talking Wiki Case Study. " The Avenue A | Razorfish wiki has evolved considerably since its launch late last year. It does some things well, a few really well and a couple terribly. So were redesigning it. style ("wikaportal" maybe?

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