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Posted by: Erin Engle
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. Here is the third in my series of “Ask the Recommending Officer” posts. This time I feature a conversation with Atish Chatterjee about the Indian General Elections 2009 Web Archive. Who are you and what is your job at the Library of …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Martha Anderson
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. The second in my series of “ask the Recommending Officer” posts features a conversation with Cassy Ammen, who shares her experience in helping to build the September 11 Web Archive. Who are you, and what’s your job at the Library of Congress? …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Butch Lazorchak
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead at the Library of Congress. As I’ve written about before, LC takes a selective approach when archiving the web. Selection of sites is not something we automate; Recommending Officers (or, “ROs” in LC lingo), do this work. Recommending materials for addition to …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
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: Liz Holdzkom
The Digital Content Management Section of the Library of Congress has refined a workflow for the large-scale acquisition of and access to open access books. In this post, read about our process and challenges faced along the way.
Posted in: Digital Content, Open Access
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. Rick Fitzgerald contributed to the Library’s web archiving program for over fifteen years as a cataloger and metadata expert. He recently moved on to a new position in Collections Management Division, as a Cataloging Specialist/Problem …
Posted in: Digital Content, Guest Posts, Interviews, Partners and Collaboration, Web Archiving
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
This blog post was co-authored by Chase Dooley (Senior Digital Collections Specialist) and Tracee Haupt (Digital Collections Specialist), members of the Library’s Web Archiving Team. The Library’s Web Archiving Team recently released a derivative dataset that describes the United States Elections Web Archive, a collection that preserves over twenty years of campaign websites for candidates …
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, Open Data, Web Archiving
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
This is a guest post by Kristy Darby, a Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress. In March 2020, we first shared about the growing collection of open access e-books available on loc.gov. A lot has changed since then but, in particular, the Open Access Books Collection was …
Posted in: Open Access, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
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