The latest news from Archive-It, August 2024
August 29th, 2024
by the Archive-It team
Archive-it and Community Webs annual meeting recaps
Our team came together in Chicago this month for the annual Community Webs Symposium and Archive-It Partner Meeting. We always look forward to these meetings where we can connect with our partner communities, exchange ideas, and explore new opportunities for digital collection building. Our team left Chicago feeling energized and eager to continue the knowledge exchange with our partners. If you didn’t have a chance to join us, you can read all about the meetings using the links below!
Community News
Buncombe County Public Library’s scanning table at the Southside United Neighborhood Association reunion, October 21, 2023.
Empowering Community Archivists at Buncombe County Public Libraries
Check out this blog post from Carissa Pfeiffer, Librarian at Buncombe County Public Library and Community Webs member, about how the library has been engaging and empowering local community members to take part in the preservation of their local history for over two decades.
Become a Community Webs member
If you work at a cultural heritage organization and want to develop community-focused digital collections, then Community Webs is for you! Take a look at our call for applications to learn more about the program benefits and to sign up for one of the upcoming information sessions.
AI and Art Libraries
Watch this video to hear Sarah Beth Seymore share the innovative ways that CARTA encourages computational use of collaboratively built web archive collections with AI and open machine learning – delivered at ARLIS UK & Ireland’s 2024 conference.
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.”
Tech & Training
New tools to use web archives
Archive-It accounts now provide access to the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH), the Internet Archive’s companion service for text and data mining. Inquire here to integrate your web archive collections with ARCH or start anytime with the free-to-use service, ARCHWay.
Check the Help Center for the latest updates and support
These Archive-It help center articles were popular in August
- Access Archive-It’s Wayback index with the CDX/C API
- About Wayback URLs and messages
- Access your account with Archive-It Partner API
- About Archive-It APIs and access integrations
Subscribe for real-time updates
Don’t forget to subscribe to the Archive-It Help Center’s Announcements and Community Help forums for the latest technology updates, release notes, and direct support.
A warm welcome to our newest partners!
American International University
Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University
Radford University