Author: Tracy Seneca
Site Registry for the Web Archiving Service
Over 20 organizations are now using the Web Archiving Service to capture and archive Web sites. These organizations include the University of California libraries, other UC units and organizations beyond the UC. Web archivists have told us that they want to see a collection-planning tool […]
Web Archive for California Water Research
The Water Resources Center Archives (WRCA), using the California Digital Library’s Web Archiving Service, has built the California Water Districts Web Archive, a comprehensive archive of water district websites. This Web archive is now available to the general public at: […]
Web Archive Discovery: Memento Implementation Meeting
On February 2-3, members of the California Digital Library Web archiving team took part in a working meeting of the Memento Project, hosted by the Internet Archive. Led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Old Dominion University (ODU), […]
Web Archiving Service: Revised Site
On Thursday January 21, the California Digital Library launched a redesigned Web Archiving Service home page: http://was.cdlib.org. The new design integrates information about both web archives and curatorial tools, so that people visiting the site can easily get information about […]
Web Archiving Resource: IIPC "Active Solutions"
In September the California Digital Library hosted the 2009 iPRES digital preservation conference in San Francisco. In conjunction with iPRES, the International Internet Preservation Consortium hosted a one-day open session: Active Solutions for Preserving Internet Content. The presentations from that […]
Web Archiving Resource: Library of Congress Video
The Library of Congress has prepared a brief video to convey the need for web archiving and to describe web archiving efforts at LC. This video provides a good introduction to the collection, access and technological challenges faced by web […]
Public Access to Web Archiving Service Goes Live
The California Digital Library is pleased to announce public access to the archives built with the Web Archiving Service. The tools that CDL provides to capture, curate and preserve websites now also enable librarians to publish the archives they've created for the benefit of researchers and the general public.