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NLM to change the way it archives its web pages
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) reports that it will begin using the Internet Archive’s Archive-It Web archiving service to capture and preserve periodic snapshots of NLM Web resources. NLM to Broaden Its Institutional Web Site Archiving. Rees J., NLM Tech Bull. 2014 Sep-Oct;(400):e3. This is a change in policy. NLM says that it “will […]
Archive-it publishes Web archiving life cycle model
The Archive-it team announced today the publication of their White Paper Web Archiving Life Cycle Model. The model offers a thorough description of the entire process of Web archiving. Whether you've been Web archiving for 7 years or mulling about jumping in to the fray, this model will put you in a good headspace to do this critical work. Thanks Molly Bragg, Kristine Hanna, Lori Donovan, Graham Hukill, and Anna Peterson!
The Archive-It team is excited to publish our first white paper: The Web Archiving Life Cycle Model. With this paper we hope to share web archiving best practices and processes with organizations interested in developing and/or expanding their web archiving initiatives. This white paper is the product of a collaboration between members of the Archive-It team as well as the larger Archive-It partner community. Several partners took part in in-depth interviews regarding their experiences using Archive-It and web archiving in general, and others helped with the design iteration phase of the model and read preliminary drafts of the paper. The Web Archiving Life Cycle Model encompasses the following web archiving processes: • Vision and Objectives • Resources and Workflow • Access/Use/Reuse • Preservation • Risk Management • Appraisal and Selection • Scoping • Data Capture • Storage and Organization • Quality Assurance and AnalysisContinue reading
Check out LoC’s Area Studies webinar on Web archiving
Y'all should attend. The speaker is Abbie Grotke, who was one of our group of guest bloggers from the End of Term Archive last month. Register early. Or have a viewing party so you can share one Webinar connection with multiple people. But do it. You won't regret it!
FEDLINK invites you to the next Library of Congress Area Studies Webinar Series: "Web Archiving at the Library of Congress and Around the World," to be held on Thursday, August 30, 2012, 2:00-3:00pm ET. Since 2000, the Library of Congress has been archiving born-digital web content documenting a variety of events and themes. The Webinar will provide an overview of the Library's web archiving program and a look at international work and collaborative efforts by libraries, archives, and other organizations. The speaker is Abbie Grotke, the Web Archiving Team Lead in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress. She came to the Library in 1997 to work on American Memory digitization projects. Since 2002 she has been involved in web archiving and the digital preservation program at the Library of Congress. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: This program is FREE however there is a maximum capacity so registration is required. The webinar will be recorded and available for later viewing if you are unable to participate. Please register by Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GNBSWYM. If you experience problems with the registration link - please email your name/email/library name to fliccfno@loc.gov and we will get you manually registered for the webinar. For more information or to request ADA accommodations, please contact Dr. Anchi Hoh, Program Management Specialist, at adia@loc.gov.Continue reading
Results from the NDSA Web Archiving Survey
In fall, 2011, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)'s Content Working Group conducted a survey of US organizations either actively involved in, or planning to start, programs to archive content from the web. "The goal of the survey was to better understand the landscape of web archiving activities in the United States by identifying the organizations involved, the types of web content being preserved, the tools and policies being used, and the types of access being provided." The results of the survey are now available (PDF). The survey questions (PDF) are also available for reference. For a quick snapshot, see the preliminary results posted on the LOC blog.
Continue readingWeb Archiving Activity
The current web archiving activities of the survey respondents was as follows:
- 63% (49 of 77) have an active web archiving program.
- 16% (12 of 77) are actively testing a web archiving program.
- 17% (13 of 77) are planning on pursuing a web archiving program in the near future.
- 4% (3 of 77) formerly managed web archiving programs, but no longer do so.
Chart 1: Status of current web archiving activities.
Interestingly, of the 71 respondents that identified their web archiving goals, 80% (57 of 71) were archiving content “from other organizations or individuals for future research,” 69% (49 of 71) were preserving their own institutional web content, and 49% (35 of 71) were doing both.
In reviewing the full survey results, a number of themes emerged.
The recent emergence of web archiving, especially at academic institutions
One surprising result was the preponderance of universities that have initiated web archiving programs in the last 5 years. Of the 68 respondents that identified the specific year their web archiving began, nearly a third, 32% (22 of 68) began their programs within the last two years, the exact same number of institutions (22, 32%) that began archiving web content in the 17 years between 1989 and 2006. The recent surge in web archiving within the last 5 years – 68% (46 of 68) of those surveyed – is primarily due to universities starting web archiving programs.
Chart 2: Year began archiving web content.
Election Archiving
The United States national elections are a year away, but the Library of Congress is already busy archiving presidential campaign websites and preparing to archive House and Senate campaign sites and more starting in March 2012.
- It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like… Election Archiving Season!, by Abbie Grotke, The Signal, the Library of Congress Digital Preservation blog (November 17th, 2011).
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