ARCHIVES2017 - SAA Annual Meeting – Web Archiving Section meeting
Wednesday, July 26 • 2:30pm - 4pm
Standing Committee: John Bence, Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Alexis Antracoli, Todd Suomela, Michelle Schabowski, Rachel Taketa
1. Welcome – John and Karl
2. Panel presentations and discussion:
- Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive
- End of Term Project – began in 2008 with transition to Pres. Obama
- Multi-institutional effort
- 2016 included Google assistance - 3.4 billion URLs from Google and all of .gov URLs
- Data aggregated at Internet Archive and publicly available (400TB); FTP content now replayable
- Lots of public attention on web archiving due to current administration/at-risk government agency content
- 100,000 URL nominations per month during the project
- Shari Laster, UCSB – Government Data and Information Librarian
- California government web archiving project – ca.gov
- Began in 2007 using the CDL’s Web Archiving Service (WAS)
- 2016 LSTA grant to attempt a comprehensive crawl of the entire CA.GOV site
- Collaborative effort – eventually need to work with the CA State Library and the CA State Archives to help THEM take the helm and lead the archiving of the website
- Danielle Robinson and Max Ogden, Data Rescue Portland & DAT Project
- Project Svalbard – a metadata vault for research .gov data
- Backing up Data.gov - Catalog of all Federal data
- Science data sharing and analysis – open source tools
- Projects include: Data Jamborees – create metadata / JSON files for data; trying to get at uncrawlable data sets for NASA
3. Business Meeting
- Alexis – results from Member Survey
- 50 responses; 70% found webinars useful; 82% would like live trainings
- Popular topics = tools; metadata; scope and organization; case studies
- Need to build twitter and social media presence
- Karl - New Steering Committee for 2017-2018 introduced; proposed changes to standing rules approved
- Jackie Dooley, OCLC – announced project on Best Practices Guidelines for web archives metadata standards
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