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Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation

Archive-It Partner Since: Jul, 2013

Organization Type: Colleges & Universities

Organization URL: https://ivpluslibraries.org   

Description:

The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC) Web Collecting Program is a collaborative collection development effort to build curated, thematic collections of freely available, but at-risk, web content in order to support research at participating Libraries and beyond. Participating Libraries are: Brown University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, and Yale University.

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Contemporary Composers

Archived since: Oct, 2013

Description:

The Contemporary Composers Web Archive (CCWA) is a collection developed by the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation's Music Librarians (a collaborative working group including Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and Yale Universities, and the Universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania). The CCWA is an extension of an existing Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation Music Librarians collaborative collection development agreement identifying approximately 1,500 globally based contemporary composers of sufficient importance to have their published printed works collected at a comprehensive level by at least one participating institution. The agreement defines “contemporary” composers as: 20th-century composers still active in 1975; works by those composers deceased before 1975 but published for the first time in significant new editions after 1975 (optional among members); and composers active after 1975. The Archive aims to preserve for researchers the personal / official websites belonging to these notable contemporary composers in order to assure the continuing availability of the important, and potentially ephemeral content they contain, such as: biography, bibliography, discography, recordings, writings, lists / notices of performances, audio and video performances, photos, press notices, and more. For additional information about Ivy Plus Libraries or the Contemporary Composers Web Archive, please contact: ccwa@library.columbia.edu.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Society & Culture Composers

Cuban 27N Movement

Archived since: Mar, 2021

Description:

The Cuban 27N Movement Web Archive preserves and provides access to a broad range of websites related to the Cuban 27N Movement initiated in November 2020 by protesters in Havana, Cuba, demanding freedom of expression and other civil rights. Built by Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez (Princeton University), Jill Baron (Dartmouth College), Holly Ackerman (Duke University), and Lizabel Mónica (Princeton University) — under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation — the Archive focuses on websites produced by activists and supporters within and outside of Cuba, non-governmental organizations, Cuban alternative presses, and online periodicals on politics, art, and culture in order to guarantee that these potentially ephemeral websites are preserved and remain accessible to researchers and scholars for years to come.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Spontaneous Events Society & Culture Civil rights Protest movements Freedom of expression

Design Card Decks for Ideation and Exploration

Archived since: Jun, 2022

Description:

The Design Card Decks for Ideation and Exploration Web Archive is curated by librarians at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. Card decks are used in design fields as a game-based methodology for ideation and stakeholder participatory collaboration. The purposes of decks vary; some are used for brainstorming new products and services while others are scenario-based, prompting designers to consider how their products or services may be incorporated into different communities. They function both as a tool for design speculation and as a set of illustrations that visualize design thinking. This archive preserves websites associated with these decks; as design thinking becomes popular in many disciplines, from business to science, the potential user groups for these tools greatly expands outside traditional design fields. Curators of the archive are: Shannon Robinson (University of Pennsylvania) and Gabriella Karl-Johnson (Princeton University).

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Computers & Technology Society & Culture

Digital Gaming Communities

Archived since: Mar, 2020

Description:

The Digital Gaming Communities Web Archive preserves content, across varying web formats, generated by and related to digital games, in order to foster research within the discipline. Themes collected include critical gaming, game ethics, accessibility in gaming and game design, and user reviews and playthroughs. Content can be created by an individual, group of individuals, organizations, or corporations. While other sites are collecting digital games and criticism of digital games, no other archive is collecting the responses of the gamers themselves. This Archive will give current and future researchers a means of studying digital games and gamers in distinct and different ways than secondary sources represent. This collection attempts to collect many facets of gaming culture, which may include views expressed by people associated with extremist groups and may include hate speech in some cases. Although some users may find this content offensive or dangerous, its primary purpose is for research and teaching. The Archive is a collaboration between Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and Duke, Michigan State, and Wilfrid Laurier Universities, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. Curators of the Archive are: Laura R. Braunstein, Michelle Goodridge, Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Matthew Murray, André G. Wenzel, and Jonah Magar.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Computers & Technology Society & Culture Video games Video gamers Video game designers Video games — moral and ethical aspects

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union

Archived since: Nov, 2018

Description:

The Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians at Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and New York Universities, and the New York Public Library, in partnership (as the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation), with Brown University, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, Dartmouth University, Duke University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Pennsylvania. The collection is curated by Thomas Keenan (Princeton), Robert Davis (Columbia), Anna Arays (Yale), Erik Zitser (Duke), Alla Roylance (New York University), and Bogdan Horbal (New York Public Library). The Archive represents an effort to preserve research-valuable web content from Eastern Europe and the territories of the Former Soviet Union by a group of research librarians responsible for that part of the world. The countries of the region in recent years have been publishing a wide variety of websites likely to be of value to contemporary and future humanities, social science, and history projects, and this Archive has been established as an attempt to identify, capture, and preserve this material. The thematic and generic scope of the archive is deliberately broad, and includes websites published by political parties, non-governmental organizations and activist groups, artists and cultural collectives, and historians, philosophers, and other intellectuals. Recommend a website for inclusion.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Society & Culture Government

Feminist and Queer Activist Movements in Transnational China and the Asian Diaspora

Archived since: May, 2019

Description:

In the early 2010s, young Chinese activists started organizing across China on issues related to women’s rights and LGBTQ rights. Known as the young feminist activists (青年女权行动派), they utilized creative tactics and media campaigns. However, their activism was faced by subsequent repression: in 2015, the state arrested five young feminists, who became known as the “Feminist Five” (女权五姐妹). In 2018, the #MeToo movement started as individual survivors posted their stories onto the Chinese Internet. As a result of state repression, surveillance, and censorship, many young feminist and queer activists now live outside of mainland China but continue their activism in the diaspora. They continue to advocate for women’s and LGBTQ rights in both China and in their host countries. These groups are also connected to and have synergy with existing local movements and organizations. Originally created as the “#MeToo and the Women's Rights Movement in China” web archive in 2019, the Archive is curated by Chengzhi Wang (Chinese Studies Librarian at Columbia), Xiao-He Ma (Librarian for the Chinese Collection at Harvard), Sara Howard (Librarian for Gender & Sexuality Studies and Student Engagement at Princeton) and Joshua Seufert (Chinese Studies Librarian at Princeton) in collaboration with student researchers including Kerrie Liang (Princeton), in partnership as the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. The Archive aims to systematically capture and preserve web contents related to the feminist/women’s rights/#MeToo and LGBTQ movements in transnational Chinese networks both inside and outside of China, so that scholars and students will continuously be able to access these important, and potentially ephemeral, materials.

Subject:   Society & Culture,  Arts & Humanities ,  Sexual minorities Feminism Women's rights

Global Webcomics

Archived since: Mar, 2018

Description:

The Global Webcomics Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, in partnership (as the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation) with Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. The collection is curated by Karen Green (Columbia) and André G. Wenzel (Chicago). The Global Webcomics Web Archive aims to preserve selected webcomics and creator websites from all over the world in order to assure the continuing availability of these important, and potentially ephemeral, documents for use by researchers and scholars. This initiative intends to preserve webcomics and websites in a wide variety of styles, subjects and themes, in many different languages, created by a diverse group of artists. Recommend a website for consideration.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Society & Culture Webcomics

Historical Representation at American House Museums

Archived since: Jan, 2023

Description:

The Historical Representation at American House Museums Web Archive aims to document the changing interpretation and presentation of the experiences of working people and immigrants, the lives of the enslaved, the contributions of women, LGBT individuals, indigenous peoples, and various ethnic groups at historic house museums in the United States. House museums have been a key component of historic preservation in America since the mid 19th century. Until recently, house museums largely interpreted the lives of great men (and, on rare occasions, women), first and second generation settlers in America, or the work of master architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright or Stanford White. More recently, many house museums have begun changing their focus to include the experiences of underrepresented peoples, including but not limited to the groups mentioned above. Websites have in many cases replaced printed guidebooks in disseminating the social history of these sites. The Historical Representation at American House Museums Web Archive is curated by librarians, library workers, and professors at Columbia University (Andrew S. Dolkart and Chris Sala) and Johns Hopkins University (Holly Tominack), under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Society & Culture Government Historic sites Historic house museums Historical museums

Independent Documentary Filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

Archived since: May, 2019

Description:

Chinese independent documentary filmmakers from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have been crucial to bring attention to social and political developments. Their projects are important primary source material for the study of contemporary China, and support institutions’ programs on contemporary China studies. Because of the sensitive nature of their work, their web presences are at risk to disappear at any time. Distribution of Chinese independent documentary films also increasingly faces difficulties. The filmmaker’s websites, blogs and video feeds include information and videos that are otherwise unavailable. Curated by Luo Zhou, Chinese Studies Librarian at Duke, and Joshua Seufert, Chinese Studies Librarian at Princeton, the archive aims to systematically capture and preserve theses ephemeral websites for future access.

Subject:   Society & Culture,  Arts & Humanities ,  Documentary films

Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art

Archived since: Jan, 2019

Description:

The Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art Web Archive is a collection developed by the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation's Art & Architecture Librarians, and is an extension of an existing effort focused on collecting publications in all formats that document contemporary art and artists of Latin America and the Caribbean. The agreement defines contemporary art as it refers to 'developments in the visual arts from 1975 to the present,' with material sought 'for the entire career of artists who have been active at any time since 1975.' This archive aims to preserve for researchers the personal and official websites belonging to notable contemporary Latin American and Caribbean artists, artists’ collectives, artists’ groups, galleries, museums, and related entities in order to assure the continuing availability of the important content they contain.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Art, Caribbean Art, Latin American Artists

Literary Authors from Europe and Eurasia

Archived since: May, 2019

Description:

The Literary Authors from Europe and Eurasia Web Archive is an initiative developed by librarians at Columbia University, Harvard University, Princeton University, and Yale University, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. The collection is curated by Anna Rakityanskaya (Harvard), Thomas Keenan (Princeton), Robert Davis (Columbia) and Anna Arays (Yale). This project aims to archive web content related to literary authors (of both fiction and non-fiction essays), translators, critics and publishers from Europe and Eurasia with the aim of preserving the history of the contemporary literary process as reflected in the non-print publishing activity of important literary figures and organizations. These websites represent a key addition to the traditional literary archives and by preserving them the Confederation strives to assure the continuing availability of this potentially ephemeral content to researchers and scholars. Recommend a website for inclusion.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities ,  Society & Culture Literary journals Literary prizes Literature Authors

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