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Survey reports skills in technology and Digital Preservation will be most desired in the next five years

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Increased Collaboration : Digital archives can facilitate collaboration among archives, libraries and researchers, allowing for the sharing of information and resources on a global scale. When knowledge is shared, the community grows. Start your Digital Preservation journey today!

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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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Photo by Aaron Mayes (Curator for Visual Materials, UNLV University Libraries Special Collections and Archives). Reflecting on our mission to document Southern Nevada, we realized that we had a critical responsibility to preserve this history so we could study, remember, and reflect on it later.

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New choices, new directions: Piloting the 2018 Mexican Government Web Archive

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On July 1, 2018 Mexican voters went to the polls to decide the fate of their entire federal government: one president, 500 members of congress, and 128 senators. It’s the first time in over 80 years that Mexico will not be majority-governed by one of the two parties that has dominated national and local politics since the 1930s.

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Feature Spotlight: Internal Seeds Groups

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As of March 2023, the top names given to these internal seed groups were: ‘Fix’ (21) ‘7’ (7) A three-way tie: ‘Twitter’ (5), ‘QA seeds’ (5), ‘needs metadata’ (5) And of course there were many unique group names, meaningful perhaps only to those at the organizations.

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Learn more about web archiving with Archive-It Advanced Training

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Partners from the Queens Public Library, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and UC San Diego explain how they arrived at their answers with a discussion and demonstration of their collection development policies. Hear Archive-It partners and metadata experts discuss their approaches in the Describing Web Archives training.

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Project WARC-Speed: Challenges and opportunities for web archiving programs

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By Grace McGann (Moran), Teen Librarian, Tipp City Public Library. The opportunity was well-timed to inform my strategy as I continue web archiving through the Internet Archive’s Community Webs program at the Tipp City Public Library. Metadata and end user access are deeply integrated.

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SAA Session Overviews- Post #1! Session 702 (“Documenting Current Events and Controversial Topics”)

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Jennifer Weintraub began the session by introducing the panelists and highlighting some of its major themes and points: “Controversial material” : Weintraub defined “controversial material” broadly–”it depends”– and noted that the Schlesinger Library, along with many other institutions, already collect this kind of content.