The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Lead A previous post described the End of Term collaborative web archive. Well, when we say collaborative, we mean it. This year, our call for volunteers brought forward Associate Professor Debbie Rabina and her fabulous students at Pratt, who identified …
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. Is a U.S. Government website or part of a site you use or know about at risk of disappearing? Is there a website related to the 2012 U.S. Elections that you think should be preserved? Always dreamed of contributing to a collaborative …
The following is a guest post by Jefferson Bailey, Fellow at the Library of Congress’s Office of Strategic Initiatives. The NDSA Content Working Group, one of the five working groups of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance focuses on identifying content already preserved, investigating guidelines for the selection of significant content, discovery of at-risk digital …
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. I continue to be reminded that we’re extremely lucky in the digital preservation community to have a wide range of partners and collaborators from a diverse set of organizations to work with, both in the Unites States and globally. With web archiving …
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group. What is the value of a broken link? For understandable reasons, many would say, “not much.” While the destination-unaware nature of hyperlinks has facilitated the decentralized growth of the web, it has also greatly contributed to the perceived …