The latest news from Archive-It, January 2025
January 23rd, 2025
by the Archive-It team
Community News
Building the “Bloggernacle” – Dr. Emily Lynell Edwards studies the emergence of influence networks in Archive-It collections for her new article in Internet Histories. Register here to join the one-hour webinar Scholarship with Web Archive Collection Data at 10AM EST, 3PM GMT on February 26. Emily and panelists will share their methods, survey the tools, and answer your questions.
Towards Best Practices– The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) released its draft program for the upcoming General Meeting and Web Archiving Conference, April 8-10 in Oslo, Norway. This international web archiving community gathers annually to share experiences and solutions.
Events calendar
Connect with our team at these upcoming events:
- College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY – February 12-15
- Scholarship with Web Archive Collection Data, Online – February 26
- Seventh Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History, Washington, DC – March 19-21
What we’re reading
- How to disappear completely– Author s.e. smith shares perspectives on link rot and preserving the web from a creator’s point of view.
- Exploring and using archives– Lesley Frew summarizes her paper, “Exploring large language models for analyzing changes in web archive content” and other presentations to the 9th Computational Archival Science Workshop in Washington, DC.
- Beta release of Library of Congress web archives playback services– Abbie Grotke, Head of the Web Archiving Section, introduces the next generation access layer and replay features for LOC web archive collections.
Tech & Training
New ARCH features you can try– We invite you to pilot and evaluate our newest tools for collections as data, including our first AI-assisted datasets. Give them a try! Resources are available through the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Preserving digital collections using Vault– Join the webinar on February 19, 2025, 10AM PST, to learn more about the Vault repository service. Register to reserve your spot!
Check the Help Center for the latest updates and support
The most viewed articles in the last month were:
- Access Archive-It’s Wayback index with the CDX/C API
- About Wayback URLs and messages
- About Quality Assurance
- Access your account with the Archive-It Partner API
- Archive-It Crawling Technology
A warm welcome to our newest partners!
- City of Arlington
- Colorado News Collaborative
- Invisible Histories Project
- Laborers’ International Union of North America
- Museum of Glass
- Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
- U.S. Department of Labor