Archive-It Partner News, September 2020
September 21st, 2020
by the Archive-It team
Archive-It 2020 Virtual Partner Meeting
Register here to join Archive-It partners, Internet Archive staff, and digital preservation peers for an online conference of web archiving ideas and collaborations. It’s more than a Zoom call! This year’s meeting will be hosted in an interactive digital space for talks, discussions, and networking.
More upcoming events:
Engaging with Web Archives – September 21-22. A virtual conference of web archive access and use cases, including Archive-It partners and Internet Archive staff.
#WeMissiPRES – September 22-24. Internet Archive staff join the annual gathering to share lessons learned from collecting COVID-19 web data and developing new hosted digital preservation tools.
Dublin Festival of History – September 29. Partner Maria Ryan introduces history lovers to the National Library of Ireland’s web archive of Irish life online.
Community News
Collecting COVID-19 web archives
Web archiving partners and friends gathered virtually to discuss COVID-19 collecting, how they curate and manage the load, and what they want to see next. Read the Archive-It blog post for a summary of their strategies and ideas. And don’t forget that resources are available when you need them to meet urgent needs.
We’re also reading:
An historic effort to archive Black digital lives – An introduction to the national web archiving forum sponsored by IMLS and led by the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Teaching and learning web archiving – An interview with web archiving course instructor Samantha Abrams and student Joe Schill, who curate web archives professionally.
Preserving open access journal articles – A quick summary of the Internet Archive Web & Data Service team’s effort to collect, preserve, and share scholarship on the web.
We’re hiring!
Check out the Internet Archive’s job board for more information about openings for Archive-It software developers.
Tech and Training
Joining forces with Archives Unleashed
The Archive-It software suite will include more of the high performance analytical tools developed by our collaborators in the Archives Unleashed project, thanks to a generous grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the University of Waterloo. Read about the project and its future on the Internet Archive blog.
Understanding the “web” in web archives
Web archivist Jillian Lohndorf introduces the technology stacks underlying our experience of the web and its archives in her latest Archive-It blog post. It’s an especially helpful read for new web archivists and/or those readying to delve into more advanced training topics.
A warm welcome to our newest partners!
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Hennepin County Library
Herman Miller Inc.
Hope College
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
International Budget Partnership
Project STAND
Ryerson University
National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research (NIH/OER)
Old Dominion University Libraries
Royal Roads University
San Diego County
Université de Montréal
University College Dublin