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Archive-It Partner News, October 2023

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CARTA Information Session We will be hosting a Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA) information session on November 8th! Please join us to learn about CARTA, a collaborative team of art libraries building collections of web archives related to art history and contemporary art practice. We’re hiring Our team is growing!

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Documenting Support for Human Rights on Both Sides of the California-Mexico Border with Archive-It

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Once we made those decisions, our Processing Archivist pitched both ideas: a web collection that would preserve human rights websites focusing on the border with Baja California and another one that would document support for and settlement of refugees in San Diego County. Little did we imagine that both of our proposals would be accepted!

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Documenting Support for Human Rights on Both Sides of the California-Mexico Border with Archive-It

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Once we made those decisions, our Processing Archivist pitched both ideas: a web collection that would preserve human rights websites focusing on the border with Baja California and another one that would document support for and settlement of refugees in San Diego County. Little did we imagine that both of our proposals would be accepted!

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COVID-19 in local history web archives: What we collect and why

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By Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist for Archive-It. Archive-It’s crawling machines churned with activity as our partners sought to preserve records of the microscopic forces moving their operations to makeshift home offices around the world. Archived blog post from the Queens Public Library’s collection.

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Spotlight: Photographs Documenting the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Unwritten Record

According to John Salmond, author of The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942: A New Deal Case Study , “during its life span of nine years more than 2.5 At the National Archives, Record Group 35 is where you will locate Records of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933 – 1953. Local Photo ID: 35-GE-3B-3.

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Judicial systems are turning to AI to help manage its vast quantities of data and expedite case resolution

IBM Big Data Hub

The judiciary, like the legal system in general, is considered one of the largest “text processing industries” Language, documents, and texts are the raw material of legal and judicial work. As such, the judiciary has long been a field ripe for the use of technologies like automation to support the processing of documents.

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Archiving and describing mass tragedy: the Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada

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by Tammi Kim, Special Collections and Archives Technical Services Librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The staff at UNLV’s Special Collections and Archives were shocked and horri fied, and the impact of this tragic event has been shocking and surreal to the Las Vegas community.