Archive-It Partner News, September 2018
September 20th, 2018
by the Archive-It team
Community News
Archive-It at the National Zoo in Washington, DC
Archive-It 2018 Partner Meeting resources are now online
Thanks to everyone who made August’s Archive-It partner meeting at the National Zoo such a fun success! In case you missed it: the half-day program included reports out from partners applying new metadata profiles and workflows, coordinating among inter-agency government record retention programs, and breakout discussions of half-a-dozen technology and planning topics. You can catch up with the presenters’ materials and notes from those discussions (still very much open to your questions and comments) any time.
NYARC releases Metadata Application Profile v2
Speaking of metadata, partners at the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) conveniently published the latest updates to their own openly accessible profile for describing archived websites. These recommendations aim to be thorough but adaptable to many different contexts. For even more background information and demonstration of the profile in practice, see a recorded introduction anytime as part of the recent Describing Web Archives webinar with Archive-It partners.
Cobweb call for participation and metadata
One way to put web archive collection descriptions to good use is to share them with the Cobweb project. Read partner Kathryn Stine’s call if you are interested in using the OAI-PMH integration in order to add collection descriptions to a web archives registry that includes Archive-It and more.
Explore Archive-It collections with Archives Unleashed
“Do you have great collections, but wish you had more and different ways to explore them?” This Archive-It blog post by Samantha Fritz and Ian Milligan introduces the Archives Unleashed Cloud platform and resources that make it possible to explore web archives beyond Wayback, using text mines, link graphs, and more.
Learn more about Community Webs partners and collections
The Community Webs cohort of public library local history collections begins its second year of outreach and collecting this fall. You can learn more about this initiative with two new resources: the Community Webs site and a recording of partners’ panel and Q&A at the recent annual SAA meeting, “Community Webs: Empowering Public Libraries to Create Community History Web Archives.” (Recordings are free to any conference registrant and available to others for purchase).
Save the Date: Archive-It at ALA
Missed meeting up in DC? Archive-It partners, staff, our peers, and friends will also meet for a half-day meeting at ALA Midwinter in Seattle! Join us on the morning of Tuesday, January 29, 2019 to share web archiving ideas, problems, and plans for the year ahead. As always there will be no registration fee to attend and all are welcome. Watch your inboxes for updates on logistics and program details, but if you plan to attend ALA and have a web archiving topic for discussion it’s never too early to contact the Archive-It team at: aitmeetings [at] archive [dot] org.
Tech and Training
Release: New tools for instant crawling
The new InstaCrawl feature enables partners to add seeds to new or existing collections and immediately start crawls directly from the home page of the web application. Browsing elsewhere around the web? Add the Archive This! bookmarklet to your browser and you can click it anytime to add the page that you are currently viewing to one of these new crawls.
Get to know these Archive-It access integrations
Partners can enable direct access to their captures, collection descriptions, and other related metadata beyond their portals on archive-it.org, customizing where and how patrons find and explore their web archives. Ever thought about integrating web archives into your own front-end access systems? Not sure where to start? Or how much technical know-how is needed? Web Archivist Jillian Lohndorf breaks down options small-to-large and their detailed instructions on the Archive-It blog.
Live and archived training materials
The Archive-It Advanced Training series returns on Tuesday, November 20, with a survey of “WARC Tools” for migrating, storing, and preserving web archive collections. Register here to join us. All past webinars are accessible in the meantime from this page in the Archive-It Help Center. And don’t forget that you can always catch up with the very basics with these Getting to Know Archive-It pointers.
Looking forward
For a sneak preview of Archive-It features and functionality to come, you can check in with our newly updated development roadmap, including planned near- and long-term releases. Don’t see your idea on the list? You can make a feature request here in the Community Forum.
Community Calendar
Catch up with Internet Archive staff and other Archive-It partners at these upcoming events:
- Sep 26-30: Joint Conference of Librarians of Color – Albuquerque, NM
- Oct 16-19: Internet Librarian – Monterey, CA
- Oct 20: Los Angeles Archives Bazaar – Los Angeles, CA
- Oct 22: Archive-It Mid-Atlantic Partners Meeting – Philadelphia, PA
- Oct 24: Society of Georgia Archivists Pre-Conference Workshop – Athens, GA
- Nov 8: Web Archiving & Preservation Task Force – Edinburgh, Scotland
- Nov 9-11: California Library Association – Santa Clara, CA
- Nov 12-15: IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference – Wellington, New Zealand
A warm welcome to our newest Archive-It Partners!
Ball State University
Cape Ann Museum
Government Records Service of Hong Kong
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
The Historical Society of Central Florida
Montana State University
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
National Library of Ireland
National Records of Scotland
New York Philharmonic
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln WDR
WGBH