Archive-It Partner News, May 2023
May 18th, 2023
Introducing the Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA) portal
CARTA has a new portal! You can now browse the web archives of CARTA’s eight Collections created from the seed nominations of 40 member organizations in one convenient portal. Read more about this portal and events surrounding it in this blog post by Thomas Padilla.
Community News
Save the date for Archive-It’s Partner Meeting
Archive-It’s annual Partner Meeting returns in person on Wednesday, July 26, 2023 for a half day in Washington, DC. This half day coincides with SAA’s ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2023 conference. More details are coming soon. Watch our events page for full program details, registration, and a request for presentation proposals.
Race, Class & Inequalities
Community Webs partner Brandon Fess at the Rochester Public Library details how their organization supported local schools’ efforts to create a new curriculum with their Race Class & Inequalities collection. Read more in Brandon’s blog post.
Advancing Library Support for Web Archive Research
Archiving and Data Services hosted two in-person workshops aimed at helping to advance library support for web archive research: Digital Scholarship & the Web and Art Resources on the Web. The first was held at the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) conference in Pittsburgh and the second at the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) conference in Mexico City. Read more about these events in this blog post.
Events calendar
Find Internet Archive staff and Archive-It partners at these upcoming in-person events:
- Community Webs Symposium, May 23 – San Francisco, CA.
- Community Webs Symposium, June 27th – Chicago, IL (coinciding with ALA).
- Exploring web archives as data, July 25 – Washington, DC.
- Archive-It Partner Meeting – July 26 – Washington, DC.
- ARCHIVES*RECORDS, July 26-29 – Washington, DC.
- Archives & Records Association Conference, August 30 – September 1 – Belfast, Northern Ireland.
What we’re reading
- Web Archiving in the Netherlands – The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) celebrates web archiving initiatives in the Netherlands for the 2023 Web Archiving Conference (WAC) there earlier this month.
- Regal Reflections: Exploring a New UK Web Archive Collection on King Charles III – Nicola Bingham shares with us a special collection about King Charles III prepared by the UK Web Archive in advance of his coronation on May 6.
- Launch: Art Doc Archive – 8.5. in Berlin – Lukas Fuchsgruber heralds the launch of the Art Doc Archive with details about the open-source project that archives and visualizes websites from Berlin artists.
We’re hiring!
Our team is growing! We’re seeking a Program Officer to join the Archiving & Data Services team at the Internet Archive. Check out the Internet Archive’s Job Board to learn more about this new position, share, and apply.
Tech and Training
Screen shot of Hugging Face’s User Interface.
Getting Started with Machine Learning and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) Collections
Hugging Face machine learning has partnered with the Internet Archive to show you how some of their tools can be used to explore web archive collections made available through ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub). Learn more in Daniel Van Strien’s blog post and join the upcoming hackathon by filling out this form.
Collections as Data Futures
60 GLAM practitioners and disciplinary scholars from 18 countries gathered in Vancouver on April 25-26 at Internet Archive Canada for Collections as Data: State of The Field and Future Directions summit. Read the recap of the summit.
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A warm welcome to our newest partners!
Goodnow Library
Hancock County Library System
The Alwaleed Center at the University of Edinburgh