Archive-It Partner News, October 2019
October 22nd, 2019
by the Archive-It team
Community News
Sign up for Archive-It Office Hours
Archive-It Office Hours are here! Partners can sign up for a 20-minute one-on-one session online with a Web Archivist from the Internet Archive and talk through their questions about accounts, collections, crawls, and more. For full details and to sign up: Archive-It Office Hours.
Collaborating to preserve open science data
Web team staff from the Internet Archive will join the Center for Open Science to explore data sharing and preservation networks for open access scientific research data. Read the announcement to learn more about this Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grant.
Call for proposals: New York, Kildare, and Montreal
Web archivists and researchers will meet in the new year at:
Archives Unleashed – A hackathon for web scale data, March 26-27, 2020, at Columbia University
Engaging with Web Archives – A conference on web archive access and use, April 15-16, 2020, at Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute
IIPC Web Archiving Conference – The annual meeting of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) and web archiving peers, May 11-13, at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Events calendar
You can also meet Internet Archive staff and other Archive-It partners at these upcoming events:
October 23: Internet Archive Annual Event – San Francisco, CA
November 13: FEDLINK Fall Expo – Washington, DC
December 9-10: CNI Fall Membership Meeting – Washington, DC
Tech and Training
Take your web archives to go
Archive-It’s Karl Blumenthal introduces ways to develop new web archive data access, management, and preservation tools where partners and peers need them in a new blog post.
Advanced training: Teaching Archive-It
The Archive-It Advanced Training webinar series returns November 19 with “Teaching Archive-It.” Register here to join Archive-It’s Jillian Lohndorf and a panel of partners and hear their advice for teaching and training new web archivists.
A warm welcome to our newest partners!
Clemson University
Nancy’s Very Own Foundation
Nebraska Wesleyan University
New York State Archives
Westnet Education and Research Consortium