Archive-It

September 15th, 2021

by the Archive-It team

Seeking Vault Digital Preservation Service Pilot Partners

Interested in preserving data with the Internet Archive’s not-for-profit, self-owned and operated infrastructure?  We’re seeking additional partners to join our ongoing pilot to test a new suite of digital preservation services. All data deposited by pilot partners will be preserved and retrievable in perpetuity. For more information and to get in touch, please fill out our interest form.

Community News

Virtual Partner Meeting on September 29

Want to know more about web archiving trends, tools, and services? This year’s Archive-It partner meeting will be held entirely at your computer screen on Wednesday, September 29, from 9 AM to 2:00 PM Pacific. Registration is now full, but you can enter our registration waitlist. This year’s program will include virtual speaker panels with interactive Q&A segments and curated discussion groups.

Web Archives Researcher Skills & Tools Survey

WARST researchers in the UK would like to identify and document skills and knowledge required to achieve a range of different research goals within web archiving and for the use of the archived web for research. The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete here.

What we’re reading:

Web Archiving in North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad During COVID-19: Partner Jessica Dame describes the  rapid response to collecting needs at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Starting small but dreaming big: Partner Yoo Young Lee relates the challenges she faced as a beginner to web archiving, including difficult choices for certain collections and languages at the University of Ottawa Library.

Project WARC-Speed: New Community Webs partner Grace McGann shares the collecting, access, and stewardship goals that will guide web archiving at the Tipp City Public Library in Illinois.

We’re hiring!

Check out the Internet Archive’s job board for more information about openings with Archive-It and the Web & Data Services team.

Tech and Training

Archive-It 7.1 Release

Archive-It upgraded its web archiving software suite to version 7.1 this month. This release includes improvements to web crawling and reporting, account management, and significant upgrades to archival replay. Read the announcement for more details. In case you missed the live release webinar for Archive-It’s Wayback software improvements, you can catch up and watch the recording here.

Web Archiving for Beginners training

The Digital Preservation Coalition will host a 4-hour online training covering the main concepts and technologies involved with web archiving on October 5 and 6, 6 a.m.-10 a.m., PDT/9 a.m.- 1 p.m., EDT. Interested? Register here.

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A warm welcome to our newest partners!

Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum
Michigan State University – Film Studies & Digital Humanities
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
University of Bologna, Department of Cultural Heritage