I had a good time yesterday on a panel about Web archiving and digital preservation at the Society of California Archivists General meeting 2013 (slides to be posted there soon). The panel was organized by Scott Reed at the Internet Archive, and included Scott, Claude Zachary (University of Southern California), myself and my Stanford colleague Henry Lowood.
One of the coolest things — other than the fascinating keynote by Dr. Michael Cohen, who talked about “Culture Wars: Engaging Undergraduates in Documenting the Crisis in California Through the Historian’s Eye Project” — was learning about the site archiveready.com. This is a handy little tool to test your Website’s archivability. Paste in your url, and it goes through and checks things like standards compliance, accessibility, CSS, site maps, external media and proprietary objects like flash or quicktime, and lastly whether or not your site is already being collected by the Internet Archive’s Wayback machine. Freegovinfo did pretty well in the test with an overall rating of 78%. We lost points for having some external images and external scripts (google analytics and a facebook badge), but I don’t consider those things critical to the site for the long-term. How does your site do? Are you ready to be archived?!
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