Archive-It Partner News, February - March, 2025

We Want Your Feedback!

Help Shape Archive-It’s Future

Three Logos for Archive-It, Vault, and ARCH in a bed of clovers.

At Archive-It, we’re constantly working to improve our products and provide the best possible service for our partners. As we develop features to simplify workflows and build programs that connect the web archiving, digital preservation, and computational research communities, we want to hear from you!

We invite you to participate in a discovery call to share your thoughts, suggestions, and insights. Your feedback will directly inform our product roadmap, help us develop new features, enhance existing ones, and guide future partnerships.

This is your opportunity to shape the direction of Archive-It products and services and ensure they continue to meet your needs. Whether it’s a feature you love, something you’d like to see improved, or an entirely new idea, we value your input.

Archive-It: https://archive-it.youcanbook.me/
ARCH: https://arch-connect.youcanbook.me/
Vault: https://vault.youcanbook.me/

Thank you for being an essential part of our community. We can’t wait to hear from you!

Community News

Events calendar

Connect with our team at these upcoming event:

Digital Humanities and Digital History, Washington, DC - March 19-21, 2025
Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory, London, UK - April 2-4, 2025
Coalition for Networked Information, Milwaukee, WI - April 7-8, 2025
IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference, Oslo, Norway - April 8-10, 2025
Midwest Archives Conference, Minneapolis, MN - April 10-12, 2025
ARLIS/NA Annual Conference, Virtual, May 12-16, 2025
Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX - May 20-22, 2025
ALA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA - June 26-30, 2025

What we’re reading

Archiving Social Media: A Comparative Study of the Practices, Obstacles, and Opportunities Related to the Development of Social Media Archives - Beatrice Cannelli's PhD dissertation from the University of London
Update on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive - Caralee Adams updates us on the Internet Archive's progress for collecting U.S. Government websites.
AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone - Shayne Longpre from MIT Technology Review tells us the ways AI-crawler traffic has 'thrown the crawler ecosystem into disarray'.
Conceptualizing aggregate-level description in web archives - Emily Maemura uses the Danish Netarchive as a case study to show us another approach for web archives' description.
Creating a Dataset of Archived Web Ads - Travis Reid from Old Dominion University updates us on their Saving Ads Project that compares various capture and replay tools' success for collecting ads.

Tech & Training

Expanding ARCH - In case you missed it, here is the recording of the most recent information session about opportunities to try the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH) with grant funded support for testing and evaluation: Expanding ARCH