Archive-It Partner News, April 2024
April 17th, 2024
by the Archive-It team
Community News
Save the Date for 2024 Partner Meeting
Archive-It’s annual Partner Meeting returns in person on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 for a half day in Chicago, just ahead of the 2024 ARCHIVES*RECORDS Society of American Archivists (SAA) conference. Registration and event details will be announced soon. We hope you can join us!
Diversifying Access to the Local Historical Record with Community Webs
Community Webs is happy to announce $345,000 in additional support from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize and provide open access to more than 411,000 local history collection items from seven Community Webs partners. Read more about what this will mean to the Community Webs program in this blog post.
Community Calendar
Connect with our team at these upcoming events:
- IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference, April 24-26 – Paris, France
- The Crossing Fonds Digital Archives Symposium, April 25-28 – Vancouver, BC
- Archive-It Partner Meeting, August 14 – Chicago, Illinois
What we’re reading
- Memorabilia of Protests: Reflecting on the Sunflower Movement Archive–Academia Sinica in Taiwan has hosted the online Sunflower Movement Archive since 2015 and now plans to migrate their existing archives and preserve the public-facing pages through the Community Webs program.
- Surveying Recent Work on Measuring Web Archiving and Replay Performance–Travis Reid surveys performance metrics related to web archiving and replay quality.
- If the First Archived Copy by the Wayback Machine is 404, When did the URL First Exist?–Tarannum Zaki asks how to determine the true time map of a tweet that initially received a 404 response while web archiving.
- Social Media Is Not What Killed the Web–Ian Bogost ponders a web archived page from 29 years ago and lists changes he’s seen on the web since then.
- Google Cache Is Gone: How to View Archived Versions of a Website–Jason Cohen presents the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and its Save Page Now feature as options.
Tech & Training
Screen shot of the Plausible dashboard for archive-it.org analytics.
Who uses web archives: How to collect and share Archive-It analytics
Partners gathered online to learn more about Archive-It Analytics’ integration with Plausible on April 10. Senior Web Archivist Karl-Rainer Blumenthal and Program Manager Monique Lassere demonstrated how to measure access to Archive-It web archive collections, how to share insight from analytics, and previewed features in development. In case you missed it, you can watch the video any time or read the recap blog post.
Interested in using Analytics with your Archive-It account? Request a Plausible login here and get started tracking!
Warchaeology
The National Library of Norway released a software project on GitHub allowing users to validate and manipulate WARC files at the command line. Check out Warchaeology here on its GitHub page.
Check the Help Center for the latest updates and support
A warm welcome to our newest Archive-It partners!
Arts in a Changing America (ArtChangeUS)
Denver Office of Storytelling (Community Webs)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Michael Naber
Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Tulane University
University of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library Oral History Program (Community Webs)