Archive-It Partner News, April 2023

April 19th, 2023

by the Archive-It team

Community News

Screenshot of the Clean Clothes website’s post about the International Accord to make Bangladeshi Factories safe after the Rana Plaza collapse.

A Stitch in Time: Preserving Websites Related to Sustainability in the Fashion Industry

Since 2019, Cornell University has been collecting sites related to the textile industry in the United States, complementing their existing physical collection containing records from both sides of the Labor-Management divide. Learn from Michael Fleming and Marcie Farwell about the inception of these collections and the growing focus on sustainability here on the Archive-It blog.

Planning for Long-Term Access to COVID-19 Memory Websites

Community Webs partner Academia Sinica describes their combined approach for conserving COVID-19 memory collections and providing long-term access. Learn more about their transition plan, how Archive-It factors in, and initial thoughts in Tyng-Ruey Chuang’s post on the Archive-It blog.

One year on: an update on the War in Ukraine CDG collection

In 2022, the IIPC Content Development Working Group (CDG) launched a collaborative web archive collection to preserve web content related to the war in Ukraine. As they launch their fourth crawl, co-curators Vladimir Tybin and Anaïs Crinière-Boizet reflect on what has been collected so far to document the event, including site selection, distribution, and language. Read more about their efforts in this blog post.

Community calendar

You can also catch up with Internet Archive staff, web archiving partners, and peers at these upcoming events:

IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference, May 10-12 – Hilversum, The Netherlands.

Community Webs Symposium, May 23 – San Francisco, CA.

Community Webs Symposium, June 27th – Chicago, IL (coinciding with ALA)

ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2023, July 26-29 – Washington, DC.

Archives & Records Association Conference, August 30 – September 1 – Belfast, Northern Ireland.

What we’re reading

Web Archiving at the National Széchényi Library – Dr. Gyula Kalcsó provides insight into the workflow for building The National Széchényi Library Web Archive, highlighting the selection, curation, and crawling process.

Celebrating ten years of collecting the UK Web Space – The UK Web Archive celebrates ten years of digital collecting under legal deposit regulations. Nicola Bingham takes a look back at the evolution of the archive, its collections, and how it’s being used by researchers.

20 Years of the Web Archiving Project (WARP) at the National Diet Library, Japan – Shimura Tsutomu explores the progress made over the past 20 years since the launch of the Web Archiving Project (WARP) on an experimental basis back in 2002.

Envisioning Together: A Report to Session 803 (SAA 2022) – A report from the Society of American Archivists 2022 session “After the Finding Aid: Visioning Access Systems for Born-Digital Access” describing the importance of collaboration, usability, accessibility, and scalability when it comes to born-digital archival materials.

We’re hiring!

Our team is growing! We’re seeking a Product Manager and 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 these new positions, share, and apply.

Tech and Training

ICYMI, you can now control the visibility of seed groups in your Archive-It account! Web Archivist Tanya Ulmer highlights the benefits of using internal seed groups and checks in with Archive-It partners to hear their feedback. Learn more about this feature and how partners are using internal seed groups to their organizations’ advantage in our blogpost Feature Spotlight: Internal Seeds Groups.

Vault release notes

The Internet Archive upgraded its Vault digital preservation repository service to version 0.8.0 in April. Read the release notes for a peek into the latest features for pilot partners and what’s on deck as we prepare for wider releases.

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