Archive-It Partner News, July 2022
July 20th, 2022
by the Archive-It team
Join us at a Partner Meeting!
Archive-It partners and friends are invited to join us in-person at:
- Archive-It Partner Meeting in Boston – The annual meeting of Archive-It partners will return in-person this year on August 24, 2022, at MIT Libraries. Register here.
- Community Webs Symposium in Chattanooga – Community Webs members are invited for web and digital archiving presentations, discussions, and networking, September 13, 2022, at The Edney Innovation Center. Register here.
- Meeting in Glasgow – A half-day of presentations and conversations from the Internet Archive and partners on the latest services for preservation and access of born-digital knowledge, September 16, 2022, at the Technology & Innovation Centre. Register here.
- ICYMI: Recaps from the Canadian Web & Digital Archiving Meetup, DC Community Webs Symposium, and IIPC’s Web Archiving Conference.
Community News
Join the Archive-It Open Call
We invite you to join the next open call on all things Archive-It with the Internet Archive web and archiving team on August 24, 2022, at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. GMT. All are welcome! Point your web browser here at call time to join.
Get involved: Web archiving the war in Ukraine
Co-curators Kees Teszelszky and Vladimir Tybin invite you to contribute website nominations to the IIPC’s latest collaborative collection, “War in Ukraine (2022)”. This initiative aims to collect related web content in order to map the impact of this conflict on digital history and culture. Submit your nominations here.
What we’re reading
- Web Archiving and Government Information – Librarian Deborah Caldwell explores web archiving and its drawbacks as an approach to the preservation of government information.
- Legal and Ethical Considerations for Born-Digital Access – DLF’s Born-Digital Access Working Group introduces a set of guidelines for addressing legal and ethical issues pertaining to providing access to born-digital archival records.
- A brief look at web accessibility in Archive-It – Tori Maches, Lydia Tang, and Tanya Ulmer examine the accessibility of web archives and the Archive-It service.
Tech and Training
Live chat support
We are excited to announce that Archive-It is piloting a live chat service in an effort to boost access to support. Partners can help us test this experience starting August 2, 2022 by using our Help Widget. For further details on live chat support, including our hours of availability, please see our article in the Help Center here.
ICYMI: Archive-It 7.2 and Moving Seeds
In case you missed it, the latest Archive-It Advanced Training webinar is available to view anytime here. Web Archivist Karl-Rainer Blumenthal introduces the Archive-It 7.2 Release, including the ability to share seeds across collections.
Archives Unleashed Toolkit 1.1.0
Our collaborators from the Archives Unleashed project are proud to present the 1.1.0 release of the Archives Unleashed Toolkit for web archive analysis. Check out the latest release notes and read all about it on their blog here.
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A warm welcome to our newest partners!
Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Population Media Center
Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC)
Tinshui Yeung
University of Oxford, New College