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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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After several months of identifying and capturing content our next challenge lay in creating descriptive metadata for the collection. We decided to create a finding aid (PDF) that would be discoverable via the UNLV University Libraries catalog and the UNLV Special Collections and Archives finding aid interface.

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Archive-It Partner News, May 2018

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Archive-It staff are streamlining the API that underlies the Archive-It web application to help simplify the process of connecting partners and their third party applications to information about their Archive-It accounts, collections, and crawls. Developing a Web Archiving Application Metadata Profile at UVA.

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Understanding web archive access and use with Google Analytics: Lessons and questions from the Federal Depository Library Program

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This blog describes some of the methodologies used to evaluate data using Google Analytics, as well as some challenges. In August 2015, GPO began exploring methods to analyze our Archive-It data collected through Google Analytics. How will our users utilize these options? Will the broad subjects prove useful?