The latest news from Archive-It, July 2024
July 24th, 2024
by the Archive-It team
Join us in Chicago
Travel Poster Collection, Los Angeles Public Library
There is still time to register and join web archiving partners and peers at two events in Chicago next month:
Community Webs National Symposium
- August 13, 8:30AM – 5PM, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Learn more and register here. Travel stipends are available thanks to the support of the Mellon Foundation.
Archive-It Partner Meeting
- August 14, 1-5PM, at the Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago Public Library. Learn more and register here.
Community News
Web Archiving Conference call for proposals
The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) invites proposals for its annual Web Archiving Conference, to be held April 9-10 at the National Library of Norway in Oslo. Learn more and submit your proposal here by September 10 for consideration. This year’s conference focuses on “good practices for all aspects of web archiving.”
Collaborative community collecting with the Internet Archive
Learn the latest news and how to join the Internet Archive’s collaborative collecting programs, Community Webs and the Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA). Watch Program Officer Sarah Beth Seymore’s recorded presentation to the Canadian Research Knowledge Network’s annual meeting here: Collaborative Community Collecting with the Internet Archive.
What we’re reading
- From Hyperlinks to Queer Histories – Opening research into LGBTQIA+ web archives at the National Library of the Netherlands.
- Get Involved in Web Archiving the Summer Games – The IIPC invites nominations to its 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics collection.
- When Online Content Disappears – Pew Research Center on the scale of “digital decay” on the web.
- Saving the First Draft of History – Nieman Reports on the need to preserve journalism digitally.
Tech & Training
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
- Archive-It Crawling Technology
- About Wayback URLs and messages
- About Archive-It APIs and access integrations
- About Quality Assurance
A warm welcome to our newest Archive-It partners!
County of Santa Clara
Missoula Public Library
ViaNolaVie / Tulane University
Yellowhead Tribal College