It’s the 2013 Archive-It Partner Meeting Round-up!
Yee-haw! Last week 56 attendees and eight staff from Archive-It met in (not so chilly for November) Salt Lake City as part the annual Archive-It Partner Meeting. Traditionally held before the Best...
View ArticleWilliam Shakespeare: Playwright, Icon, Web Archivist?
Guest post by Jaime McCurry Jaime McCurry is currently serving as a 2013 National Digital Stewardship Resident at the Folger Shakespeare Library in partnership with the Library of Congress and the...
View ArticleJanuary Collection Spotlight: Winter wonderlands
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/ Every month we spotlight an Archive-It collection in our e-mail newsletter, and this month we want to share two collections that showcase the wonder and...
View ArticleHonoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in web archives
MLK Jr. Memorial and Washington Monument, Washington D.C. Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvesfamily/ In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we are proud to share collections of archived web...
View Article5 Questions with the Archive-It team’s newest members: Hunter Stern and...
We recently welcomed two new team members at Archive-It HQ in San Francisco in our quest to better serve our growing community of partner organizations archiving the web. We appreciate the support of...
View ArticleSpeak up! Archive-It 5.0 Feature Request Forum
Attention Archive-It Partners: We want to hear what is important to you for Archive-It 5.0! At our annual Partner Meeting in November, 56 Archive-It users participated in a brainstorming session for...
View ArticleUntangling the Web: How Museums Can Enhance Collections Through Web Archiving
Will you be attending the 2014 Museums and the Web conference in Baltimore April 2-5? If so, consider attending Archive-It Partner Specialist Lori Donovan’s workshop, “Untangling the Web: How Museums...
View ArticleEmerging Leaders in Web Archiving: Interviews between NDSR residents
Last month we featured guest poster Jaime McCurry, current National Digital Stewardship Resident at Folger Shakespeare Library. She recently interviewed Maureen McCormick Harlow, NDSR resident at...
View ArticleDuracloud announces new Archive-It integration feature
Today we are excited to share a press release from DuraCloud, a digital preservation service from the DuraSpace organization. After an initial pilot period, they are now offering a new feature to...
View ArticleWelcoming new Archive-It Partners: NACS and Loyola University Chicago
Archive-It serves nearly 300 partner organizations globally to archive and provide access to cultural heritage on the web. Please join us in welcoming two new organizations to the Archive-It community:...
View ArticleFebruary Collection Spotlight: Gold Medal Edition
https://wayback.archive-it.org/4200/20140215194449/http://2014.rt.com/torch-relay/ Library of Congress’s Signal Blog posted about the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Sochi Olympic...
View ArticlePodcast: The Web Archivists Are Present
Jefferson Bailey of Metropolitan New York Library Council and Joshua Ranger of AudioVisual Preservation Solutions are the hosts of our favorite podcast about archives and preservation, “More Podcast,...
View ArticleCelebrating International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month in the web...
From Oxfam International: To celebrate solidarity with women worldwide, Oxfam-Solidarite and numerous other organizations took the streets today in Brussels on International Women’s Day, 2012. The...
View ArticleUkraine Conflict Collection: Web archive ensures site stability through crisis
Screenshot of the Crimean Center for Investigative Journalism’s website, captured on March 1, 2014 On March 1st, a group of masked gunmen took over the offices of the Crimean Center for Investigative...
View ArticleIntroducing Archive-it 4.9 and Umbra
Today Archive-It released version 4.9, which includes an important first step in implementing Umbra, an additional capture mechanism that works along with Heritrix to help archive dynamic web content....
View Article5 Questions with Reed Tech’s David Wilson
In November we announced Archive-It’s partnership with Reed Tech, including our collaboration to market and expand the Archive-It partner community. We are excited to share that David Wilson of Reed...
View ArticleStories, Maps, and Punk Rock Archives: An NEA Conference Recap
-By Sylvie Rollason-Cass, Partner Specialist Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelingotter/ Last week I traded sandals for snow boots to attend the New England Archivists (NEA) Spring 2014...
View ArticleOur Marathon: One year after the Boston Marathon Bombing
Source northeastern.edu/marathon In the year since the bombing at the Boston Marathon, the digital archive project Our Marathon of Northeastern University in Boston has collaborated with WBUR, the...
View Article5 Questions with Lead Engineer Noah Levitt
We hope you’ve enjoyed getting to know our new team members on the blog, and we thought you might also like to know a little bit more about the engineer behind Archive-It for the past 6 years. Noah...
View Article2014 Election archiving collaboration takes off
By Sylvie Rollason-Cass, Partner Specialist source https://www.flickr.com/photos/vox_efx This year, the Archive-It team is partnering with researchers Michael Dougal and Ryan Hübert at the University...
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