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The Archive-It team and our partners have been archiving web content and creating digital collections since late 2005. Partners have created 2000+ collections on topics and subjects as diverse and wide...
View ArticleJapan Disaster Archives: Collaboration for successful web archiving
by Lori Donovan, Partner Specialist In late January, Kristine Hanna and I spoke at the Opportunities and Challenges of Participatory Digital Archives Conference at Harvard University, hosted by...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Web Archiving Life Cycle Model
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...
View ArticlePiecing together the debate: Archiving the Supreme Court DOMA/Proposition 8...
This week the Archive-It team is coordinating a collection of archived web pages related to the Supreme Court hearings for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8. Based on...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Web Archiving: NEA Web Archiving Birds of a Feather Recap
By Tessa Fallon Tessa Fallon (Outreach and Education Consultant) and Lori Donovan (Partner Specialist) will be coordinating “Birds of a Feather” sessions at 2013 conferences. The first BOAF was at the...
View ArticleNot All Websites Are Made Equal (Or Friendly): Archiving ephemeral art...
The New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), in conjunction with Truman Technologies, recently published a series of web archiving reports including an in depth case study using Archive-It to develop...
View ArticleThe Next Big Thing: Archiving Tumblr in the shadow of GeoCities preservation
The Yahoo corporation made recent headlines for the 1.2 billion dollar acquisition of the social blogging site Tumblr.com. With over 108 million blogs, Tumblr is a social networking and media sharing...
View ArticleA Look Inside the Friends of the Archive Collections
Along with our subscription accounts, the Archive-It team is able to assist a limited number of institutions as “Friends of the Archive” to capture and archive their valuable and at risk web content....
View ArticleTwo Archive-It partner meetings coming soon! Register today!
Calling all Archive-It partners and the web archiving community! There are two opportunities to connect, learn, and network with the Archive-It community in person- in the US and abroad- including...
View ArticleDigital Preservation Meeting 2013 Recap
-by Scott Reed, Partner Specialist Last month, I attended NDIIP/NDSA’s Digital Preservation meeting. While others on the Archive-It team are DigiPres veterans, this was my first time in DC to attend...
View ArticleAnnouncing native support for Memento
The Archive-It service is excited to announce that it now natively supports the Memento protocol. Memento aims to make it as straightforward as possible to access the web of the past as it is to...
View ArticleArchive-It
Increasingly, Library Science and Archives Management programs are offering courses specific to archiving born digital and web content. And Archive-It has been stepping in to play a role. Since 2007,...
View ArticleYou can be a part of the Web Archiving Incentive Program!
The Archive-It team welcomes a guest post from our partner Anna Perricci, Web Archiving Project Librarian at Columbia University Libraries. We are looking forward to the results of this grant to...
View ArticleArchive-It is growing, join our team!
The Internet Archive/Archive-It headquarters in San Francisco, CA Are you excited about web archiving and working for a dynamic and growing team? We have three positions open, and are looking to speak...
View ArticleOur first international Web Archiving Meeting
The view from our meeting room, Innsbruck Austria. Photo by Erich Wichselgartner. On September 20th Archive-It, along with our Partners at the University of Innsbruck, hosted our first ever Archive-It...
View ArticleAnnouncing the first ever Archive-It US Government Shutdown Notice Awards!
On October 1st, the Archive-It team began archiving the home pages of federal agencies impacted by the government shutdown. It was important to capture these URLs quickly and frequently during the...
View Article“They’re really going to listen to us and let us choose sites to save? We’re...
This week we launched the 6th year of the K-12 Web Archiving program in collaboration with the Library of Congress and seven schools (in seven different states) across the US. This program provides the...
View ArticleThis is how we do it: University of Innsbruck
The following is a guest post from Archive-It Partner, Renate Giacomuzzi of the University of Innsbruck. The University of Innsbruck’s Newspaper Archive co-hosted our first International Web Archiving...
View Article5 Questions with our newest Partner Specialist, Maria LaCalle
We are excited to introduce Maria LaCalle as the newest Partner Specialist! Along with rest of the Partner Specialist team, Maria will be working directly with Archive-it Partners to answer their...
View ArticleAnnouncing partnership with Reed Tech
Archive-It has entered into an agreement with Reed Tech, which which will enable our service to significantly (and quickly) expand so we can continue to meet the needs of our growing partner base....
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