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Survey: How Do You Approach Web Archiving?

Posted by: Abbey Potter

Do you have fifteen minutes to tell the National Digital Stewardship Alliance about your organization’s web archiving activities? If the answer is yes, please contribute to the NDSA Web Archiving Survey. By filling out this short survey, your institution will be part of a multi-year project to track the evolution of web archiving programs in …

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Five Questions for the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig

Posted by: Erin Engle

The following is a guest post from Michael Neubert, a supervisory digital projects specialist at the Library of Congress. In February of this year I wrote a post here about an collaborative effort of representatives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Government Publishing Office (GPO), and the Library of Congress to work …

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Exploring Web Archiving at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Erin Engle

The following is a guest post by Samantha Abrams, an intern for the Web Archiving Team at the Library of Congress. As a library school graduate student, I developed an interest in archives and born-digital objects (content pulled from floppy disks, web pages, Tweets, and on) but I lack practical, professional experience working with these …

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Dodge that Memory Hole: Saving Digital News

Posted by: Abbey Potter

Newspapers are some of the most-used collections at libraries. They have been carefully selected and preserved and represent what is often referred to as “the first draft of history.” Digitized historical newspapers provide broad and rich access to a community’s past, enabling new kinds of inquiry and research. However, these kinds of resources are at …

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Users, Use Cases and Adapting Web Archiving to Achieve Better Results

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post from Michael Neubert, a Supervisory Digital Projects Specialist at the Library of Congress. In a blog post about six months ago I wrote about how the Library of Congress web archiving program was starting to harvest “general” internet news sites such as Daily Kos, Huffington Post and Townhall.com, as …