by the Archive-It team
Community News
Microfiche sheet from the Brooklyn city directories, 1822. Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.
Illuminating the Stories of Brooklynites Through Digitized Directories
Dee Bowers, Archives Manager at the Brooklyn Public Library Center for Brooklyn History, describes their objectives for and discoveries from recent digitization of 236 microfiche sheets of Brooklyn city directories in this recent blog post. Read on to learn how community-focused memory organizations like The Center for Brooklyn History are anticipating the needs of future researchers and historians through digitization and public access, and diversifying representation of local history.
Archiving the Black Web: Documenting and Preserving the Black Experience Online
Black collecting institutions and Black memory workers are invited to participate in a survey, focus groups, and interviews contributing to research about the experiences of those laboring to document Black life and history as it relates to web archiving. ATBW are committed to providing web archiving training, supporting the development of web archiving programs, and building, growing, and maintaining the Black Web Community Archive.
Events calendar
Connect with our team at these upcoming events:
- American Association for State and Local History: Demystifying Digital Preservation, October 16 - online
- Museum Computer Network 2024, October 22-24 - Lawrence, Kansas
- Internet Archive Annual Celebration, October 22-23 - San Francisco, California and online
- Association for Computers and the Humanities 2024, November 6-8 - online
What we’re reading
- Some URLs Are Immortal, Most Are Ephemeral - Michele Weigle, on behalf of the “Not Your Parents’ Web” project, shares preliminary findings from a study of 27.3M URLs archived by the Wayback Machine from 1996 - 2021.
- IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference presentations - The University of North Texas Digital Library hosts collected presentations and resources from the 2024 IIPC assembly and conference in Paris.
- Exploring the Archived Web during a Highly Transformative Age - The proceedings of the 5th international RESAW conference, held in Marseille in June 2023, are detailed in this book, underscoring the importance of web archiving and ongoing shifts in the technology, practice, and dissemination of archived source material.
- CLIR Climate Resiliency Action Series - The Council on Library and Information Resources announces a series of free 2024-2025 workshops dedicated to understanding and building active solutions to climate issues in galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and records institutions.
Tech & Training
Access archived webpages directly through Google Search
Archived content accessible through the Wayback Machine is now easier to access and explore from a Google search. Learn more about this recently announced collaboration here.
Learn more about our research tools
We’ve added resources to support interest in the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH). Reserve time to learn about the Internet Archive’s companion research platform for web archives and more: ARCH Office Hours. Or subscribe to the latest developments as they happen: Subscribe to ARCH updates.
Check the Help Center for the latest updates and support
The most viewed articles in the last month were:
- How to compare two crawls
- 2011 Society of American Archivists (SAA) Meeting Session, The Web is a Mess: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Web Archiving
- 2013 Web Archiving Meeting - Innsbruck, Austria
- About Archive-It APIs and access integrations
- About data de-duplication
A warm welcome to our newest Archive-It partners!
Archivo La Esquina (Community Webs)
Blair Public Library and Technology Center (Community Webs)
Drake University
Galveston Railroad Museum (Community Webs)
Macalester College
Mississippi University for Women- Beulah Culbertson Archives and Special Collections
Norwegian-American Historical Association (Community Webs)
Roseville Public Library (Community Webs)