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Homepage for the Shawnee Tribe website, which features a colorful, artistic depiction of two members of the Shawnee tribe

Preserving U.S. Indigenous Government Websites: From Directory to Digital Archive

Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate

As a 2025 Junior Fellow, Maggie Jones helped build the United States Indigenous Government Websites Web Archive with the guidance of her mentor, Giselle Aviles. In this interview, they describe how the collection developed from a list of over 500 tribes and what that process taught them about web archiving. They also share examples of how Indigenous government websites often extend beyond administrative functions to document culture, history, language, and community life.

Posted in: Digital Preservation, Interviews, Web Archiving

The blog name, El ojo de Adrian: arte, literatura, Centroamérica, appears over an artistic collage of what appears to be magazine and newspaper clippings

From Print Volumes to Digital Scholarship: The Handbook of Latin American Studies Web Archive

Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate

Since the 1930s, the Handbook of Latin American Studies has documented scholarship on Latin America and the Caribbean. In this interview, Tracy North describes how that long-standing mission now extends to web archiving, ensuring long-term access to web-based research materials. The conversation discusses the collaborative process of selecting websites to archive and the behind-the-scenes work involved in developing the collection. 

Posted in: Digital Preservation, Interviews, Web Archiving