Occupy Wall Street: From the Streets to the Archives
Earlier this week a Times article looked at social scientists who are trying to study Occupy Wall Street in real time. But a group of archivists are also hitting the streets, and the Internet, in an effort to preserve the movement’s traces for scholars of the future.
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-- by JENNIFER SCHUESSLER New York Times Arts Beat Blog
The Humanities, Digitized
When the largest tsunami in Japan’s recorded history struck in March 2011, wreaking horrific damage up and down the northeastern coast, Folger Fund professor of history Andrew Gordon recalls that he and other Harvard scholars of Japanese culture “had a sense that this was an event that would probably change people’s sense of time” in Japan. A core group of faculty members also felt obligated to try to capture the ephemeral documentation of the crisis that was appearing on the Internet.
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Harvard Magazine, May-June 2012
Digital Preservation Is Cultural Literacy
While digital preservation might not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about K-12 curricula, in fact teaching kids about Web archiving, digitization, media storage, and collection building can foster long-term thinking and serve as a gateway to hands-on learning in science and technology.
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Kari Kraus, Huffington Post, 4/26/2012
Archiving an unprecedented disaster
There is an urgent need to collect materials for a digital archive of the catastrophe triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake, especially because digital resources are uniquely impermanent.
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Asahi Shimbun, March 2012
D-Lib Magazine
A focus on web archiving in the March issue of D-Lib Magazine.
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-- March 2012
La frágil memoria de la informática
An article on preserving digital information from the Argentinian newspaper Clarin
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-- Clarin, February, 2012
Archiving Human Rights
In 2009, Columbia University Libraries received a grant from the Mellon Foundation to explore web archiving program development. The collection at the center of our web archiving program is the Human Rights Web Archive. Why are we doing this? In brief, to preserve online resources for future researchers and activists. Archiving the sites of human rights organizations ensures, to a certain degree, that the website content will be preserved in the context of the original site, and will be accessible even if the original site becomes unavailable.
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-- Witness Blog, January, 2012
Entire Cornell Website to be Archived
Internet Archive will create an archive of Cornell’s entire web space — approximately eight million documents — by capturing HTML coding, images, PDFs and links to external pages, according to Dean Krafft, Cornell library chief technology strategist, who is overseeing the project.
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-- The Cornell Daily Sun, April 13, 2011
CAPE Students Creating Virtual Time Capsules
Eighth-graders at Camarillo Academy of Progressive Education are literally making history. The students and their teacher Camille Kavon are taking part in a K-12 Web Archiving Program sponsored by the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive and California Digital Library. The program is designed to encourage students to think about history by selecting sources for ongoing research use, effectively creating "time capsules" of what represents their current lives.
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- Ventura County Star, March 10, 2011
AUC Rare Books and Special Collections Library News
Interested in learning more about the events of January 25th? Explore the resources described below to discover more about demonstrations in Egypt.
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--American University in Cairo Rare Books and Special Collections Library, February 2011
Open Folklore + Community Arts Network
The Community Arts Network (CAN), Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, and the American Folklore Society are pleased to announce that the CAN Web site has been archived as part of the Open Folklore project. After CAN announced it would be forced to immediately shut down its Web site due to lack of funds, the IU Bloomington Libraries offered to capture the CAN Web site using Archive-It.
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Open Folklore, September 16, 2010
Archive-It Tuned Into Customers
Kristine Hanna, the director of web archiving services at the Internet Archive, has no illusions about the nature of web content. "One of our favorite expressions is, 'the web is a mess,'" she laughed. "It truly is, and it's not getting any better. We have these librarians and archivists who are interested in highly curated collections of born-digital content. So, the question is, how do we get from 'the web is a mess' to highly curated collections?"
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Library of Congress Digital Preservation Program News, July 26, 2010
NASA Archiving Social Networking Activity
NASA has partnered with online subscription service Archive-It to store all of the space agency's social media activity and make it accessible from one central location.
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Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek March 30, 2010
Archiving NASA’s Social Media
One thing NASA is careful about is archiving material. They are well aware of the importance of the work they’re doing, and public outreach is a critical aspect of it. That’s why I’m happy to see a new effort on the part of the space agency to archive all their social media outlets.
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by Phil Plait March 21st, 2010
Sherwood middle school students participate in nationwide program to archive Web sites
Sherwood middle school students are creating a 21st century version of a time capsule, though there won't be any shovels or digging involved.
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By Melissa Navas, The Oregonian February 24, 2010
Long–term Preservation for fragile Web content: LANIC’s Web archiving Program
In this article, Archive-It partner, Kent Norsworthy, talks about how the Latin American Network Information Center at UT Austin uses Archive-It to archive government documents from Latin America, as well as why web archiving is so important for this type of content. The article was published in the 2008-2009 "Portal"(http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/etext/llilas/portal/portal099/), a magazine published annually
since 2006 by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American
Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
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10/29/09
School Library Journal: "Web archiving from a kid's point of view"
"Could 22nd-century researchers think of the Captain Underpants Web site as source material? They might if kids taking part in the K-12 Web Archiving Program decide they want to preserve it for future generations."
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by Lauren Barack, 8/31/09
Resource Shelf: "K-12 Web Archiving Program"
Repost of a portion of the Library of Congress K12 Web Archiving article (8/5/09)
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8/8/09
Library of Congress: K12 Web Archiving
"Student comments [about the web archiving program] included 'choosing the websites was really fun because it let everyone be creative and really think about what teenagers enjoy today,' and 'I had never thought of archiving websites, even though in this day and age we use them as much as and more than books.'"
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- 8/5/09
The Record Journal: Moran students chronicle their 'worlds' online
"Most of the decisions being made about what gets archived have been made by adults," said Cheryl Lederle, educational resources specialist at the Library of Congress. "Student users are arguably one of the largest users of the Internet proportionately, and their voices weren't being heard."
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--April 2, 2009
Inside Iowa State
Last spring, university archives purchased an annual subscription to Archive-It, a web site preservation program that permanently captures web pages. University archives staff piloted the program in the fall of 2007, successfully preserving web pages from ISU Extension, the policy library and student organizations.
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08/29/08
Resource Shelf
"Unlike another IA project, The Wayback Machine, Archive-It pages can be keyword searched. The service uses Nutch open source search software."
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12/27/07
Resource Shelf
"The Internet Archive’s Archive-It service continues to debut new permanent archival collections of web pages and sites. Here are a few new ones since we posted our last update. This time the collections all began with the help of the Tennessee State Library and Archives. Here are a few of the many Tennessee collections."
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8/17/2007
OSTI Partners with Internet Archive
"The DOE E-print Network is the largest collection that a federal institution has undertaken in an on-going effort to preserve their own documents and history through Archive-It."
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6/29/07
Resource Shelf
"The Archive-It Team at The Internet Archive continues to do important work archiving the web. Over the past few weeks we’ve been posting about many new collections that Archive-It has been rolling out and this week will be no different."
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5/12/2007
EContentMag.com
"The Internet Archive's universal approach to the dissemination and access of information is embodied in its Archive-It service that anybody or any organization can use."
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Kristine Hanna, 10/05/2006
Resource Shelf
"While digitizing content gets tons of press these days, archiving the web is a very important issue for info pros that deserves lots of attention and work. Although many web archiving projects exist around the globe, The Internet Archive is perhaps the most well known."
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06/23/2006.
C|Net News.com
"Subscribers can develop digital collections of their own based on up to 300 "seed" Web sites designated by the institution. The annual service lets subscribers create and manage up to three collections, with as many as 10,000,000 URLs."
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Stephanie Olsen, 05/01/2006.
Spellbound Blog
"Archive-It puts the tools for managing larges scale web crawling in the hands of archivists."
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08/27/2006.
Librarian in Black
"A project of the beloved Internet Archive...Talk to them and see what they can do for you!"
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Sarah Houghton, 04/25/2006.
E-Content Magazine
"Collaborating with state archivists as well as public and private libraries, Archive-It is working to preserve information found on the Internet. New features and applications of the Archive It 1.5 release include enhancements to the user interface, improved access to collections, and advanced search and reporting capabilities."
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Michele Manafy, 04/28/2006.
Chronicle of Higher Education
"The Internet Archive has released new software, called Archive-It 1.5, that lets colleges and museums create their own searchable catalogs of data and multimedia. The software -- available for an annual fee of $10,000 -- allows institutions to manage digital collections comprising as many as 10 million items as part of the archive's main project, a comprehensive online library showing the evolution of every site on the Web. A number of colleges, including the University of Toronto and Indiana University at Bloomington, have signed up for the service, the archive said. "
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The Wired Campus, 05/03/2006.
School Library Journal
"Students are encouraged to use the online archives, which are free to anyone with an Internet connection. Once on the site, users can choose from the available collections, including one on Hurricane Katrina. After a collection is selected, the site retrieves links, similar to search engine results, to Web sites that have been cached in the archives."
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Lauren Barack, 05/12/2006.
John Battelle's Searchblog
"Archive-It 1.5 provides subscription-based service that allows institutions to store, categorize history (at a lower price) from their website and WWW. Users are able to explore and access these text-searchable collections, without needing additional technical expertise."
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John Batelle, 05/02/2006.
HangingTogether
"Those not able or ready to step up to web archiving on their own (or who might want to get their feet wet slowly) might be interested in taking a look at Archive-It, a new product of the Internet Archive. Archive-It makes it possible, at a fairly modest price, to get started with web archiving without a lot of technical expertise or investment."
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Merrilee Proffitt, Program Officer, RLG. 04/29/2006.
Biblog (Denmark)
"Take the tour to see how it works. It is all up-to-date technology, simple and straightforward. And very effective."
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Erik Hy, 04/29/2006.
Blog Juice for Educational Technology
"Allows institutions to manage digital collections comprising as many as 10 million items as part of the archive's main project, a comprehensive online library showing the evolution of every site on the Web."
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Joe Schwoebel, 05/03/2006.
stories from a Library Life
"Archive-It is working to preserve a record for generations to come."
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Paloma Cruz, 04/29/2006.
University of Georgia: Enterprise Information Technology News
"Archiving made easier..lets colleges and museums create their own searchable catalogs of data and multimedia."
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Staff, 05/12/2006.
Opera Community: Library Related
"Internet Archive today announced the latest release of Archive-It 1.5, a new subscription-based archiving service geared towards a broad range of institutions at a cost considerably lower than other archive platforms. Archive-It enables subscribers to capture, categorize, and preserve online material from their own institutions websites as well as from the world wide web. Users are able to access and explore and these text-searchable collections, without needing additional technical expertise."
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Librarian, Brooklyn Library. 05/03/2006.
Why Use Archive-It?
The organizations we work with use Archive-It to:
- Support the organization's existing digital preservation activities
- Archive organization and related websites and online publications
- Archive state or local agency websites and records
- Capture elected officials's websites and election events
- Capture publicly available social networking sites: blogs, tweets, photos and comments
- Create a web archive on a specific topic or subject
- Assemble content to aid in research, grant funding, and patron support
- Maintain strong electronic records management system to ensure critical documents are preserved
- Capture "at risk" content on rapidly changing events
- Gather information from the web to enhance traditional collections and exhibits
- Archive artist files, digital collections, online price lists and auction catalogs
- Preservation of law and policy related materials, including Supreme Court activities