Category: Web Archiving
The Broad Value of Web Archives: Researcher Findings
On April 30 2012, the International Internet Preservation Consortium hosted a day-long session on “The Broad Value of Web Archives: General Use” (http://netpreserve.org/events/2012ga.php). Speakers at this event focused on the use and analysis of web-archived materials, and provided a glimpse into […]
Web Archiving Service Welcomes Emory University Libraries
CDL Welcomes Emory University Libraries as the newest Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org/) partner! Kate Donovan Jarvis, Emory’s University Archivist and Erika Farr, Coordinator for Digital Archives will be using the service to archive the University’s websites. They will also use […]
Web Archivists: Call for Speakers is Open for Internet Librarian 2012
The call for submissions is now open for the 16th annual Internet Librarian conference, taking place October 22-24 in Monterey, California. The conference focuses on libraries’ use of internet technologies and covers a wide range of topics. Just a few of […]
Web Archives: Information on Recent Technical Difficulties
From: Tracy Seneca – Web Archiving Service Manager, California Digital Library UPDATE: Wednesday February 21, 2012 The Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org/) developers have completed their work to improve the performance of the public WAS archives. Developers are now resuming work […]
CDL Supports: Building the UC Irvine and UC Davis Campus Web Archives
A growing number of organizations are using the California Digital Library’s Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org/) to build comprehensive archives of large university campuses. The web has become the primary mode of communication and publication for campus events and issues, and […]
Web Archivists: Two Calls for Papers
Librarians and archivists engaged in building web archives have two upcoming opportunities to share your experience with an international audience. April 30th, 2012: “The Broad Value of Web Archives: Demonstrated Use” – Washington DC This open session is part of […]
Web Archiving Service Tech News – Code4Lib
Web Archiving Service developers Erik Hetzner and Scott Fisher will present at this year’s Code4Lib conference on the tools they used to re-index over 600 million files in the web archives: “Indexing Big Data with Tika, Solr & MapReduce”. The […]
WAS Under the Hood: How Web Archives Work – Nov 16 Webinar
The Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org) enables librarians, archivists and researchers to capture websites, and to build and publish web archives. Join us Wednesday November 16th at 9 am Pacific for a webinar on the technologies behind the Web Archiving Service. […]
Web Archiving Service Webinars: Introduction to WAS
Learn how to build web archives with CDL’s Web Archiving Service! Our introductory webinar will be offered on October 26, October 27th and again on November 10th (details below). If you are a new WAS user or if you’re just […]
Making the Case for Web Archiving: IIPC Video
The International Internet Preservation Consortium has released a brief montage of eloquent and compelling interviews with Web preservation experts discussing the value and scope of this work. Representatives from the British Library, the Swiss National Library, the Library of Congress […]