Category: Web Archiving
Learn more about digital preservation, web archiving and data curation
UC3, CDL is pleased to announce a Summer Webinar Series highlighting projects, services, and developments in the areas of digital preservation, web archiving and data curation. A goal of the webinars is to raise awareness of these issues, and the […]
Preview of Forthcoming Web Archiving Service Features
A recording of our recent web-conference session on Forthcoming Web Archiving Service Features: QA Tools, Duplicate Reduction and Search Enhancements (http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=5xb4sl) is now available. This 60 minute demo covers: WAS Roadmap: new features in context of overall direction for the […]
Web Archiving Service: Blog Posts and Articles
We’d like to alert you to two recent write-ups of the Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org) that cover both an initial evaluation and an in-depth examination of extensive use of the service. Chris Prom provides a Web Archiving Service Evaluation in […]
Recently Released: University of Michigan Web Archive
Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org/) partners at the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan have made their comprehensive archive of university websites available to the public. The University of Michigan Web Archive (http://webarchives.cdlib.org/a/universityofmichigan) contains 490 archived sites from the umich.edu domain, […]
April Web Archiving Service Workshops (14th, 19th & 25th)
The California Digital Library will be offering two introductory Web Archiving Service sessions in April and another session to preview forthcoming enhancements to the service. Web Archiving Service Introduction Sessions On April 14th and again on the 25th at 9:30 […]
Web Archiving Service Maintenance, Monday March 28
On Monday, March 28th the Web Archiving Service servers will undergo a scheduled maintenance. This maintenance will require a downtime for the service between 8 am and noon on Monday. During that time, public archives will remain accessible, but login […]
Amazing times, social media
I work with web archiving full-time so you think that I’d be used to the web by now – but sometimes it can still strike me as strange. These have been amazing times in recent months, with revolutions and uprisings […]
New Features in the Web Archiving Service
CDL’s Web Archiving Service will be adding some exciting new features next week. Starting December 9th, WAS curators will be able to create topical browsing for public web archives using their own terminology. Researchers will be able to explore your […]
The Scholar’s Library is Global
There has been much talk of late about the need for and possibility of creating a National Digital Library (see the call by Robert Darnton and one response by Roy Tennant (http://blog.libraryjournal.com/tennantdigitallibraries/2010/11/08/dueling-national-digital-library-visions/) ). An especially thoughtful response by Paul Courant […]
Nov 8th and 16th: Introduction to the Web Archiving Service
Introduction to the Web Archiving Service Two sessions offered: November 8th and November 16th, 10:00 – 11:30 am Learn how to use the Web Archiving Service to capture critical websites and publications and build searchable archives. If you are a […]