The latest news from Archive-It, February – March, 2025
March 5th, 2025
by the Archive-It Team
We Want Your Feedback! Help Shape Archive-It’s Future
At Archive-It, we’re constantly working to improve our products and provide the best possible service for our partners. As we develop features to simplify workflows and build programs that connect the web archiving, digital preservation, and computational research communities, we want to hear from you!
We invite you to participate in a discovery call to share your thoughts, suggestions, and insights. Your feedback will directly inform our product roadmap, help us develop new features, enhance existing ones, and guide future partnerships.
This is your opportunity to shape the direction of Archive-It products and services and ensure they continue to meet your needs. Whether it’s a feature you love, something you’d like to see improved, or an entirely new idea, we value your input.
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Thank you for being an essential part of our community. We can’t wait to hear from you!
Community News
Collaborative Collecting for the War in Ukraine – As the war in Ukraine continues into its third year, the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium) and SUCHO (Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online) continue to document it. Explore the IIPC’s War in Ukraine collection, the joint effort of their Content Development Group’s communal nominations. Similarly, SUCHO now has a dedicated database of their web archives for you to explore.
Events calendar
Connect with our team at these upcoming events:
- Digital Humanities and Digital History, Washington, DC – March 19-21, 2025
- Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory, London, UK – April 2-4, 2025
- Coalition for Networked Information, Milwaukee, WI – April 7-8, 2025
- IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference, Oslo, Norway – April 8-10, 2025
- Midwest Archives Conference, Minneapolis, MN – April 10-12, 2025
- ARLIS/NA Annual Conference, Virtual, May 12-16, 2025
- Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX – May 20-22, 2025
- ALA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA – June 26-30, 2025
What we’re reading
Archiving Social Media: A Comparative Study of the Practices, Obstacles, and Opportunities Related to the Development of Social Media Archives – Beatrice Cannelli’s PhD dissertation from the University of London
Update on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive – Caralee Adams updates us on the Internet Archive’s progress for collecting U.S. Government websites.
AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone – Shayne Longpre from MIT Technology Review tells us the ways AI-crawler traffic has ‘thrown the crawler ecosystem into disarray’.
Conceptualizing aggregate-level description in web archives – Emily Maemura uses the Danish Netarchive as a case study to show us another approach for web archives’ description.
Creating a Dataset of Archived Web Ads – Travis Reid from Old Dominion University updates us on their Saving Ads Project that compares various capture and replay tools’ success for collecting ads.
Tech & Training
Expanding ARCH – In case you missed it, here is the recording of the most recent information session about opportunities to try the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH) with grant funded support for testing and evaluation: Expanding ARCH
Open-Source Tools for Researching with Web Archives – Join the next IIPC Research Speaker Series webinar on March 17th diving into PANDORÆ and Hyphe, two free and open source tools developed for research with web archives. PANDORÆ systematically explores full-text indexed web archives. Hyphe curates crawls in a more research-oriented manner with an iterative approach. Register here for your spot on March 17th.
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The most viewed articles in the last six weeks were
- Archiving YouTube videos
- Archiving Facebook
- Archiving Twitter feeds
- How to find and download your WARC files with WASAPI
- Archive-It System Status
A warm welcome to our newest Archive-It partners!
- 227th Assault Helicopter Battalion Archive
- American Institute of Physics
- Andrews University
- Canton Historical Society
- CoLang Web Committee
- DeWitt District Library
- Dorr Township Library
- Employee Benefits Security Administration
- Grand Ledge Area District Library
- Harvard Library
- Jacksonville History Center
- Lyons Township District Library
- Monroe County Library System – Bedford
- Orion Township Public Library
- Oscoda County District Library
- Presque Isle District Library
- Roseville Public Library
- St. Clair County Library System
- St. Lawrence County Center for History & Culture
- Ypsilanti District Library