Archive-It Partner News, February 2022
February 16th, 2022
by the Archive-It team
Unlocking the Research Potential of Web Archives
Archive-It joined forces with the Archives Unleashed project and an international community of scholars to explore web archive data at scale. Together we’re developing “ARCH,” the Archival Research Compute Hub. Learn more about the technologies and what comes next here on the blog.
Want to explore web archive data with peer support, grant funding, and publishing opportunities? Applications are open for the next Archives Unleashed Cohort Program. Read the call for more information and to apply by March 31.
Community News
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What we’re reading:
- Building a community of web archiving practice in Canada – Archive-It teammates Bridget Collings and Raven Germain report from the 2022 CARL/ABRC Web Archiving Symposium.
- Citizen Web Archivists – Partners from the University of Dayton’s Marian Library share their experience teaching and curating web archives with undergraduates.
- Time Travel with Waybackfill – Columbia University Archives describes how they acquired and integrated captures going back to 1996 with Archive-It’s Waybackfill service.
Office hours with the Archive-It team
Have you joined office hours yet? Archive-It’s web archiving team offers real-time support via Zoom when you need it. Sign up here and bring your collecting, scoping, technology, and more questions.
We’re hiring!
Our team is growing! We’re seeking a Program Manager and a Senior Product Manager to join the Archiving & Data Services team at the Internet Archive. Check out the Internet Archive’s job board to learn more about these new positions, share, and apply.
Tech and Training
Library as Laboratory
Join us online on March 2 for “Supporting Computational Use of Web Collections,” the first in a brand new series on the technologies that enable research at the Internet Archive’s scale. Register here.
Processing web archives at scale with ArchiveSpark
Web Data Engineer Helge Holzmann dove deep into large scale data processing with ArchiveSpark for the latest web archive technology continuing education workshop hosted by the CEDWARC project. Watch the video anytime here.
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A warm welcome to our newest partners!
Bennett College, Thomas F. Holgate Library
Dundas County Archives
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Oxford County Archives
Toronto Workers’ History Project
Presbyterian Church of Canada
St. Catharines Public Library
West Virginia University