December 2, 2023

Vice: The Palestinian Internet of the 90s Is Being Preserved, One GIF at a Time

Vice: The Palestinian Internet of the 90s Is Being Preserved, One GIF at a Time. “To many Palestinians, Israel’s ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip is destroying not just buildings and human lives, but a people and their history. With Israeli strikes expected to continue after a brief pause this week, one artist is trying to preserve that history with a digital archive that gathers remnants of the Palestinian internet as it existed in the late 90s and 2000s.”

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October 22, 2023

British Library UK Web Archive Blog: UK Web Archive Technical Update – Autumn 2023

British Library UK Web Archive Blog: UK Web Archive Technical Update – Autumn 2023. “The most important achievement over the last quarter has been establishing a replica of the UK Web Archive holdings at the National Library of Scotland (NLS). The five servers we’d filled with data were shipped, and our NLS colleagues kindly unpacked and installed them. We visited a few weeks later, finishing off the configuration of the servers so they can be monitored by the NLS staff and remotely managed by us.”

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October 1, 2023

Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation: IPLC Launches the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement of Iran Web Archive

Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation: IPLC Launches the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement of Iran Web Archive. “The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement of Iran web archive, curated by librarians at the IPLC. This web archive preserves material on, about, and from the Woman, Life, Freedom movement of Iran, which emerged in the wake of the 2022 police killing of Mahsa Jîna Amini.”

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September 6, 2023

Library of Congress Blog: The Web Archiving Team Answers Questions About the Web Archives

Library of Congress Blog: The Web Archiving Team Answers Questions About the Web Archives. “Have you ever wondered what exactly is web archiving? How the Library select which websites to preserve? Or how you would find and search the web archives? The Web Archiving Team’s Senior Digital Collection Specialists gathered to answer these questions and more in a live webinar during the Preservation Directorate’s celebration of Preservation Week. If you missed it, we have good news– a video is now available to watch on the Library’s website, and you can also read a short summary of the presentation here.”

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August 30, 2023

Library of Congress: Improvements Ahead for the Web Archives

Library of Congress: Improvements Ahead for the Web Archives. “Users of the Library of Congress Web Archives may have recently noticed issues when trying to access archived content presented at webarchive.loc.gov. We want to give some background and explanation about the ongoing work that is happening to modernize and improve functionality, and to set the stage for future announcements about planned improvements for access to the Library’s Web Archives.”

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July 7, 2023

British Library UK Web Archive Blog: RESAW 2023 Conference Report from the UK Web Archive

British Library UK Web Archive Blog: RESAW 2023 Conference Report from the UK Web Archive. “2023 was the fifth RESAW conference. RESAW stands for Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials. It was established in 2012, aims to promote a collaborative European research infrastructure for the study of archived web materials and holds a conference every two years. The 2023 conference was held in Marseille from June 5-6 under the theme ‘Exploring the Archived Web During a Highly Transformative Age’.”

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June 15, 2023

National Library of Finland: Käärijä’s Eurovision journey captured in the Finnish Web Archive 

National Library of Finland: Käärijä’s Eurovision journey captured in the Finnish Web Archive  . “Käärijä came to international attention when he represented Finland in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, finishing in second place. The National Library of Finland has now collected online materials on the country’s most talked-about phenomenon of the spring 2023.”

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May 8, 2023

British Library: Regal Reflections: Exploring a New UK Web Archive Collection on King Charles III

British Library: Regal Reflections: Exploring a New UK Web Archive Collection on King Charles III. “As we bear witness to a new era of the British monarchy and reflect on its role within the UK, the UK Web Archive is recording and preserving this momentous occasion by capturing websites in a special collection about King Charles III. Work started in earnest on this collection on 8th September 2022 when the late Queen, Elizabeth II, passed away and Charles became King, however, it also forms part of a larger series of collections about the British monarchy in the early 21st Century, curated by staff in the UK Legal Deposit Libraries.”

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March 26, 2023

Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation: IPLC Launches the Historical Representation at American House Museums Web Archive

Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation: IPLC Launches the Historical Representation at American House Museums Web Archive. “The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Historical Representation at American House Museums Web Archive, curated by librarians, library workers, and professors at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University. House museums have been a key component of historic preservation in America since the mid 19th century.”

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March 15, 2023

National Library of Finland: Dozens of online forums collected for the Finnish Web Archive

National Library of Finland: Dozens of online forums collected for the Finnish Web Archive. “Online forums and message boards have long been significant venues for special-interest discussion and debate. They have also played an important role in the emergence of Finnish online culture. The National Library of Finland has now collected 55 Finnish online forums as a part of national cultural heritage.”

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February 23, 2023

National Library of Spain: The BNE and the Euskadi Digital Library collaborate to save the .eus domain

National Library of Spain and Google-translated from Spanish: The BNE and the Euskadi Digital Library collaborate to save the .eus domain. “Thanks to the collaboration between the Digital Library of the Basque Country and the National Library of Spain, the .eus domain, a benchmark for Basque culture and language on the Internet, has been saved for the first time for its preservation…. Addressing the .eus domain in its entirety is a complex technical challenge, which involves saving more than 13,000 domains. Each domain has been saved with a size limit of 150 MB and a total of 730 GB of information has been stored.”

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February 22, 2023

National Library of the Netherlands: KB launches Religion and Philosophy of Life web collection

This is from last November but I just found out about it and it’s too good to miss. From the National Library of the Netherlands: KB launches Religion and Philosophy of Life web collection. “The National Library of the Netherlands (KB) has launched a new web collection: Religion and Philosophy of Life. In it you will find 580 websites about religion, spirituality and philosophy of life, or how people view life. It is the largest Dutch web collection on this subject.”

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January 31, 2023

‘An immense loss’: Stripper Web, a popular forum for adult entertainers, shutters after 20 years (Daily Dot)

Daily Dot: ‘An immense loss’: Stripper Web, a popular forum for adult entertainers, shutters after 20 years. “Stripper Web, an online forum for exotic dancers, webcam models, and online sex workers announced this week that it’s closing on Feb. 1. The forum, which houses over 900,000 posts and discussion threads from workers in the adult entertainment space, said in a statement the site’s shuttering was a ‘difficult decision.’”

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November 14, 2022

Snopes: A Guide to Archiving on the Internet

Snopes: A Guide to Archiving on the Internet. “Here at Snopes, archiving web links is key to our fact-checking practice. And thanks to numerous archival resources on the internet, that practice has become easier than ever. Keeping records on the internet is essential to understanding not just the history of the web, but also to help us track whether a tweet was ever deleted, or if someone amended a statement on a web page.”

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