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Where Science Meets Storytelling: Twelve Years of the Science Blogs Web Archive

Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate

More than a decade after its launch, the Science Blogs Web Archive continues to grow and evolve. In this interview, Jennifer “JJ” Harbster reflects on building and maintaining the collection, while intern Yahir Brito brings a fresh perspective on updating and expanding it. Together, they share a few of their favorite blogs and discuss why it is important to preserve these unique examples of scientific communication.

Dozens of squares, each with its own individual color or shade, lined up in rows and columns

Diving into Digital Ephemera: Identifying Defunct URLs in the Web Archives

Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate

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 …