by the Archive-It team
Happy Holidays!
Warmest wishes for the 2024 holiday season from our team to you and yours!
Community News
Creating Collections, Making Connections
Liz Paulus (she/they), Web Services Librarian at Cedar Mill & Bethany Community Libraries, is preserving the history of their community one website at a time. The collections showcase a rich record of community engagement and culture that would otherwise be undiscoverable.
Columbus Neighborhood Newspapers Showcase the City’s Diverse Communities
Aaron O’Donovan discusses the Columbus Metropolitan Library’s recent digitization project. At the top of his digitization list are neighborhood newspapers including those that document Columbus’s Black and Jewish communities as well as the city’s labor and anti-slavery movements.
Events calendar
Connect with our team at these upcoming events:
- College Art Association (CAA) workshop: Digital Art History and the Web: An Introduction to Web Archive Data Analysis, New York, NY: February 14, 2025
- Seventh Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History, Washington, DC, March 19-21, 2025
What we’re reading
Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record
This report highlights recent instances of cultural loss, explores the underlying causes, and emphasizes the critical role that public-serving libraries and archives play in preserving these materials for future generations. Read more essays online about the power and importance of preservation in our digital age.
Top newsletter articles of 2024
- 2024 Archive-It Partner Meeting Recap - If you couldn’t join us in Chicago, this article includes a video with behind-the-scenes updates about Archive-It infrastructure improvements, new feature demos, development priorities, and milestones.
- Introducing ARCHWay - Explore the power of ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub) with a free-to-use sandbox of diverse collections.
- Public Libraries Meet to Advance Community Archiving - This summer Community Webs partners gathered for a series of workshops and events. If you weren’t able to attend, browse a video library of additional professional development opportunities on metadata decisions, preservation policies, quality assurance, and more.
- 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.
- AI and Art Libraries: Leveraging the Potential of an Art Library Collaborative - Sarah Beth Seymore discusses the innovative ways that CARTA (Collaborative ART Archive) encourages computational use of collaboratively built web archive collections with AI and open machine learning.
Tech & Training
How to Collect and Share Archive-It Analytics
In case you missed it, this webinar recording demonstrates how to measure access to Archive-It web archive collections and shares insights from partners on their reporting practices. Learn more at Track access to your web archives with Plausible Analytics.
Community Archives Digital Preservation Toolkit
This toolkit from the Digital Preservation Coalition presents simple steps you can take to help safeguard your digital collections no matter where you are in your digital preservation journey. You are not alone — the toolkit is designed to empower you.
Datasheets for Web Archives Toolkit
In this collection of templates and samples, Emily Maemura (University of Illinois) and Helena Byrne (British Library) outline how the Datasheets for Datasets framework can be applied to web archive collections published as datasets.
Top Help Center articles of 2024
- Access Archive-It's Wayback index with the CDX/C API (1,872 views)
- About Archive-It APIs and access integrations (871 views)
- About Wayback URLs and messages (869 views)
- About Quality Assurance (642 views)
- Add, edit, and manage your metadata (609 views)
Check the Help Center for the latest updates and support
A warm welcome to our newest partners!
- Anglican Diocese of Toronto Archives (Community Webs, Vault)
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- The Cooper Union
- Edmonds/South Snohomish Historical Society (Community Webs, Vault)
- Fulshear Historical Association (Community Webs, Vault)
- Greater Cape May Historical Society (Community Webs)
- Human-Etisk Forbund (The Norwegian Humanist Association)
- Maggie Osgood Library (Community Webs, Vault)
- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- Oakwood University (Community Webs)
- Pearl S. Buck International (Community Webs, Vault)
- Raíces Cultural Center (Community Webs, Vault)
- Textile Museum St. Gallen
- University of Idaho Library
- William and Mary Local News Research (Sponsored)
- Workers Solidarity Movement