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Special Invitation to DPC Members – Talk on EDGI’s Monitoring of US Federal Websites on Climate Change, Energy, and the Environment
Description Invitation to Attend a Talk by Raymond Cha of the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) on Monitoring US Federal Websites on Climate Change, Energy, and the Environment DPC Members have been invited to register for a talk by Raymond Cha of the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) on the Initiative’s work monitoring US federal websites. For the last year and a half, EDGI has been keeping track of around 30,000 US federal websites (.gov) for changes in...
Web Archiving & Preservation Task Force Reconvened
This event is now sold out. Please email sara[dot]thomson[at]dpconline[dot]org to reserve a place on the Wait List. You will also be able to join the meeting virtually via web conferencing. Description This will be the first reconvened meeting of the Web Archiving & Preservation Task Force where participants will discuss and agree on the new Terms of Reference and commence discussions on the topics important to their institutions, their collections, and their users. The Task Force was first...
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision seeks server-side web archiving case studies
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision has begun investigating strategies for the preservation of complex dynamic websites that cannot be captured with current web crawling tools. The team would like to explore whether server-side web archiving could be a promising strategy to deal with this task. However, this is unexplored territory and they are keen to learn how other institutions would approach similar challenges.
Preserving digital cultural heritage: Better together!
{jcomments on} Barbara Signori is Head of e-Helvetica at the Swiss National Library, Bern. The Swiss National Library has a mandate to collect, catalogue, store and disseminate the cultural heritage created in Switzerland and abroad by and about the Swiss. This sounds like a clear enough mission, but dig deeper and this mandate raises all sorts of tough questions especially in a digital world. First of all, what is digital cultural heritage? Obviously it goes far beyond e-books and...
Web preservation demands access
Daniel Gomes is Arquivo.pt Service Manager for the Foundation for Science and Technology in Portugal. "Collect the web to preserve it?! I don't envy that job." That is a direct quote from my first "real-world" meeting. I was 23 years old, I had just graduated from the University and that was my first job. We were in the year 2000. One year later, we had developed a running prototype to perform selective collection of online publications. It was the first effort to preserve the...
Two early episodes on digital preservation… plus one!
José Borbinha works at INESC-ID – Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) at Lisbon University, Portugal (Episode 1) When unsuccessful digital preservation can be convenient The year of 1998 was special. In May, it opened the Lisbon World Exposition! In June, it was held the “Sixth DELOS Workshop on Preservation of Digital Information” in the beautiful Tomar. Finally, in October, I became CIO of the National Library of Portugal. In retrospective, 1998 was my definitive commitment with this...
Archivo web de Proceso de Paz y Posconflicto
Johanna Gallego Gutiérrez is Digital Deposit Manager for Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, in Bogotá La Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia ha iniciado la construcción del Archivo de la web y de recursos estáticos digitales sobre proceso de paz y posconflicto en Colombia. Esta iniciativa pretende recolectar, custodiar, preservar y divulgar, para las generaciones presentes y futuras, la historia web del importante momento que vivimos en nuestro país, a través de las...
Lossy Accelerant: Surfeit and Fragment in Digital Collections Archives
Jefferson Bailey is Director of Web Archiving Programs for The Internet Archive in the USA Archival collections have always been incomplete. Being homogenous, selective groups of records preserved through time, they support attestation and evidentiary consideration only through their longitudinal availability. Multiple appraisal, selection, and processing strategies have developed over the history of the archival endeavor to address the ways in which the archival collection is, by...
Web archiving for all! Web archiving with Webrecorder
Guest blogger Anna Perricci at Rhizome introduces us to the Webrecorder In her recent post, Sara Day Thomson described how digital preservation can be a conversation stopper at parties and at passport control. I empathize though for me the puzzlement she describes is a real paradox: as our lives turn increasingly online so it seems obvious that some evidence of our collective neuroses, passions and creativities should be preserved. Perhaps the web’s most astonishing feature is the...
As realities erode: 3d4ever?
My eroding realities Alternative facts are the cliché du jour but let me pitch a problem that is categorically larger: alternative realities. Not just alternative, but alternative and obsolete realities. I spoke about this at a DPC briefing day at the end of 2016 – which already seems a life time ago. It was a surprisingly hard programme to assemble because there is precious little evidence that those involved in producing 3d data sets for the cultural heritage sector have any capacity – and...
Highlights from the E-ARK Conference
{jcomments on} Over the last three years, the partners of the E-ARK Project have worked together to develop and test specifications and tools for the creation and management of information packages for preservation. Around this work they have also been busily undertaking complementary research and resource creation, resulting in a wide variety of new and improved practical solutions for those undertaking digital preservation activities. On a crisp, cold day at the beginning of December...
A breakthrough year for web archiving in 2016?
{jcomments on} Anyone who works with web archives quickly becomes used to the fact that most people have not even heard of them – even fewer understand what they are and where you might be able to access them. In 2016, however, it seemed as though web archives began to filter into the public consciousness, to move from the technology pages of the more serious newspapers to the political and even cultural sections. In May 2016, for example, the BBC announced plans to close its Food website,...