Archive-It Partner News, November 2021
November 18th, 2021
by the Archive-It team
Introducing the Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA)
A few of the websites nominated by CARTA members
With generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Internet Archive is joining forces with 24 partners to collect, preserve, and provide access to vital arts materials from the web. Membership in the new program includes national and regional art and museum libraries throughout the U.S. and Canada, and we’re actively seeking more US-based arts institutions to participate in the project too! To learn much more and join the collaboration, read the announcement: 24 Arts Organizations join the Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA).
Community News
Release: 1.3 billion scholarly citations from IA Scholar
The Internet Archive is sharing its full citation index for the IA Scholar discovery service. “Refcat” represents one of the larger citation graph datasets of scholarly literature to date. To learn more about it and access the complete dataset, see: Internet Archive Releases Refcat.
Webinar: Community infrastructure for open science
Register here to attend an online workshop with the Internet Archive and the Center for Open Science on Thursday, December 9, at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern. Participants will learn the best practices for finding, using, and sharing Open Science Framework (OSF) registration data. Learn more about our collaboration and this web workshop in the announcement here.
Last Call: COVID-19 Web Archiving Campaign
Archive-It will phase out its cost-sharing program for new web archive collections related to the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of 2021. Please reach out to us as soon as possible if you need to increase your data at a discounted rate. Learn more at: COVID-19 Web Archiving Special Campaign.
Tech and Training
Partial ARCH graph of hosts preserved in the IIPC’s
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) web archive collection
ARCH tools for analyzing web archives at scale
The Internet Archive, Archives Unleashed, and their pilot research cohorts continue to develop their new toolkit for web archive analysis, newly dubbed “ARCH.” Read how an international research team uses these tools to explore COVID-19 web archive data here on the IIPC blog and learn where the development project goes next with the program update here.
Archiving TikTok
The Archive-It web application now includes automated crawl scoping help for TikTok seeds. To learn the latest recommendations for formatting, scoping, and running your crawls on TikTok posts, profiles, or trending topics, see the Archiving TikTok page in Archive-It’s Help Center.
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A warm welcome to our newest partners!
Annenberg School for Communication Library
Boston Children’s Hospital Archives Program
Clerics of St. Viator
East Bay Regional Park District
Gilbert Munger Catalog Raisonne
Movement Alliance Project
Parkland College
Widener University