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Archive-It Partner News, November 2017

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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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New book explores the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit

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Chapters draw on evidence gathered from real-world case studies produced in collaboration with leading libraries, researchers and practitioners including Bodleian Libraries, National Library of Sweden and the National Archives of Zimbabwe. s Literature (Cambridge University Press 2018).

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Collecting for continuity and for change: The web archiving experience in Westborough

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In 2013, a group of sixty people packed into a venue designed for forty in order to see a collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century town records that had just been found in the Westborough Town Clerk’s vault. Web archiving now enables us to collect the digital records of life in our town. We love our history in Westborough!

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Feature Spotlight: Internal Seeds Groups

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by Tanya Ulmer, Web Archivist for Archive-It Seed groups have been around for a while, allowing partners to organize their seeds on their public collections’ pages at archive-it.org. In fact, any seed groups created after September 12, 2022 will not be visible on archive-it.org unless you choose to make it publicly visible.

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Celebrate Black History Month on a high note

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by Tanya Ulmer, Web Archivist for Archive-It. This Black History Month, I wanted to uncover some hidden gems by finding and sharing their audio tracks in publicly available web archive collections. Since then, we’ve also introduced the A/V archiving utility youtube-dl into all Archive-It web crawls.

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Synoptic web archiving: Preserving a multilingual environment

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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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The Human Rights web archive collection at Columbia University Libraries?

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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.