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Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
This is a guest blog post by Abbie Grotke, Assistant Head, Digital Content Management Section You may have noticed that it is presidential election season in the United States, which means it’s also time for web archivists to gather once again to archive United States Federal Government websites during the end of the presidential term. …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Web Archiving
Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, lead information technology specialist of the Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Readers of The Signal may recall prior efforts to archive United States Federal Government websites during the end of presidential terms. I last wrote about this in 2012 when we were working on preserving the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Web Archiving
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
Have you ever wondered what exactly is web archiving? How the Library select which websites to preserve? Or how you would find and search the web archives? The Web Archiving Team’s Senior Digital Collection Specialists gathered to answer these questions and more in a live webinar during the Preservation Directorate’s celebration of Preservation Week. If …
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Web Archiving
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
Today’s guest post is from Abbie Grotke, Assistant Head of the Digital Content Management section at the Library of Congress. Users of the Library of Congress Web Archives may have recently noticed issues when trying to access archived content presented at webarchive.loc.gov. We want to give some background and explanation about the ongoing work that is happening to modernize and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Guest Posts, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Web Archiving
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
This post is provides updates to the Library of Congress's Recommended Formats Statement for 2023-2024.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
This is a guest post written by Olivia Meehan, a 2022 Junior Fellow working with the Web Archiving Team. Her project was completed under the mentorship of Lauren Baker. If you follow a link referenced in an article just to hit a dead-end, “page not found” error message – you have experienced link rot. “Link …
Posted in: Digital Content, Guest Posts, Web Archiving
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Liz Holdzkom, Marcus Nappier and Kate Murray of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division and Ted Westervelt, Chief, US/Anglo Division at the Library of Congress. Introduction As the Library of Congress expands its digital collecting activities, the Recommended Formats Statement (RFS) supports a structured methodology to assess the viability …
Posted in: Formats, Guest Posts
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Digital Projects Coordinator in Digital Collections Management and Services at the Library of Congress and Bertram Lyons, Partner and Managing Director for Software at AVP. Note: This is the last in a series of updates from the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Audio-Visual working group. See That’s …
Posted in: FADGI, Formats, Guest Posts, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
Today’s guest post is from Tracee Haupt, a Digital Collection Specialist in the Digital Content Management section at the Library of Congress. On the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, I asked four individuals who were part of the creation of the September 11, 2001 Web Archive to reflect on their experience documenting …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Interviews, Web Archiving