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

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

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

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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Archive-It

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2017, eight tractor-trailers carrying over 5000 cubic feet of archival materials and tens of thousands of books arrived at Cornell. As smaller companies fold and larger firms merge, these websites are at risk of disappearing, therefore, in 2019, we created the first web archiving project related to the ATHM collections.

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Archive-It

APRIL 1, 2021

by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist for Archive-It. Want to know more about a tool in our web archiving toolbox? Your suggestions or questions for future posts about Archive-It technology are very welcome here. It’s a digital preservation mantra: lots of copies keeps stuff safe (LOCKSS). But what do we know about that WARC?

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Archive-It

MAY 14, 2020

by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist for Archive-It. Web archiving partners of all kinds are collecting the records of COVID-19 on the web. Archive-It partners met in virtual groups over the last two weeks in order to introduce themselves, their collecting goals, questions, and ideas to one another. Case studies.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 15, 2021

How do users access services or make requests if they are not in the same building? These technologies depend entirely on the availability of high-quality, well-structured information, data and metadata to function. how do you get information and resources into the hands of people when they need it?

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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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The Schedule

AUGUST 26, 2019

They address challenges related to collection scope, ethics of collection and access, liability, contexts for the collection, appraisal, access, technology, and staff safety. This session is relevant to any archivist who is considering web archiving or social media collection of current events.”. ( [link] ) .

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stump and Bower introduce how Archive-It partners at the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) Web Archive have implemented and use Google Analytics to understand the use of their existing collections and plan for the future. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has been an Archive-It partner since 2011.

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Archive-It

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist for Archive-It. The scale, specificity, and urgency of the topic begs us to ask new questions about some old collecting routines, to align tool development with the most pressing needs, and to imagine altogether new kinds of web data access and usage. Web archiving for web formats.

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Archive-It

MARCH 1, 2023

by Alex Thurman, Head of Web Collecting, Columbia University Libraries Columbia University Libraries’ web collecting program began in 2008, with the goal of ensuring that selected freely available web resources remain accessible for current and future researchers.

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Archive-It

MARCH 8, 2023

At the national level, campaign websites have been regularly archived by both the Library of Congress but also existing crawling criteria used by the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, facilitating access to historical candidate websites for both citizens and researchers.

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