Archive-It Partner News, August 2023
August 16th, 2023
Summer Roundup
The Archive-It team, along with other Archiving and Data Services team members, have had a busy few months. Check out our event recaps to see what we’ve been up to.
2023 Archive-It Partner Meeting recap – About 30 Archive-It partners and friends gathered at the D.C Public Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial branch for a half-day of presentations and conversations about web archives and research.
Exploring art resources on the web as data – In July we held a workshop at the National Gallery of Art where art librarians, web archivists, students, and educators gathered to learn how to collect art resources on the web and explore them computationally at scale.
Community Webs Symposia – over 50 public librarians came together for two different US based events intended to shine a spotlight on community-focused digital collecting. The two symposia – part of a series of cohort-building events for members of the Community Webs program – provided opportunities for attendees from across the country to meet, learn and share ideas in support of the program’s local history collection-building and outreach objectives.
Community Events
Find Internet Archive staff and Archive-It partners at these upcoming in-person and online events:
September 1: Archives & Records Association Conference – Belfast, Northern Ireland
November 13-15: DLF 2023 Forum – St. Louis, MO
November 15- 17: Fantastic Futures — Vancouver, BC
What We’re Reading
Navigating Through Archived Websites: From Text Matching to Generative AI-Enhanced Q&A
Peter Chan, Web Archivist at Stanford University, details options for providing research access to Stanford’s web archive collections.
Starting Points: Initial Methodological Approaches to Archiving Digital British Islam
Gary Bundt describes the process of developing a web archiving practice for the Digital British Islam project.
2023-08-10: Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop 2023 Trip Report
Kritika Garg shares a recap of the WADL workshop, including overviews of each presentation + slides.
We’re Hiring!
Our team is growing! Check out the Internet Archive’s job board to learn more about new positions, share, and apply.
Tech & Training
Try it yourself: ARCH datasets and tutorials.
Explore sample web archive collection datasets from the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH) and learn to use them with popular text and data mining tools here in the ARCH Help Center.
Check the Help Center for the Latest Updates and Support
A warm welcome to our newest partners
New Mexico State Library
Randolph-Macon College
Rhode Island College
MidPointe Library System