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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.

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The stack: An introduction to the WARC file

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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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Truth, Lies & Videotape: Digital Video Archivists Gather at MoMA

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We live in a video age. Make that a digital video age. And all those digital video files flying around on the internet or downloaded onto your phone not only provide entertainment or inspiration to current viewers, but could be one of the best windows into our world for future historians.