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 …
The following is a guest post by Abbey Potter, Program Officer, NDIIPP. She is also Communications Officer for the IIPC. Spring time in Washington, DC has a lot going for it. Cobblestone streets and historic row houses accented by blooming bushes and trees, beautiful weather with lots of sunshine and breezes, and sunsets against the …
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group at the Library of Congress. As much as we can do to preserve archived websites once we have them, the challenges we encounter are always already determined by how those websites were originally constructed. In the interest of …
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 …
This is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead at the Library of Congress. Some of you may have heard the recent news that The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) program, including their website, was to be terminated on January 15 due to a loss of funding. This impending loss grabbed the …
The University of North Texas College of Information with the International Internet Preservation Consortium is seeking applications for a 3-year doctoral studies support award. The deadline for applications is February 15, 2012, and annual financial support is approximately $40,000 (USD). The awardee will be directly involved with the activities of the IIPC and will experience …
The following is a guest post from Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead and National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Working Group Co-Chair In November 2010, the Library of Congress convened a Citizen Journalism workshop that brought together researchers, bloggers, journalists, academics and archivists to address selection and preservation issues for hyper-local community news on the …
The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead. The United States national elections are a year away, but the Library of Congress is already busy archiving presidential campaign websites and preparing to archive House and Senate campaign sites and more starting in March 2012. This actually isn’t the earliest we’ve …