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- Designed by the International Internet Preservation Consortium's (IIPC) Training Working Group, this 8-module training offers a more extensive introduction to many aspects of archiving the web, including the main concepts, technologies, scoping collections and writing policies and elevator pitches.
Collecting with
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the Ivy Plus Web Collecting Program
The Ivy Plus Confederation, a partnership between 13 leading academic libraries, hosts a Web Collecting Program that is a collaborative collection development effort focused on building curated, thematic archival web collections. Curators and web collectors can partner with at least one other library in the confederation to nominate a website or series of websites to contribute to one of the collecting themes. The nomination is reviewed by the Web Advisory Committee of Ivy Plus, and if appoved, a web archivist for the program will begin archiving that website. This is an excellent pathway towards web archiving for Harvard Library units that want to archive websites that crossover with partner institutions' collecting interests in order to take better advantage of collecting. It also relieves units of needing to expend additional resources (money, time, and training) on web archiving activities.
Want to begin the nomination process or have more questions? Please contact the Web Advisory Committe of Ivy Plus.
Ivy Plus Web Collecting Program collection themes
- Browse the many collecting themes the Program currently supports. Curators can coordinate with partner institutions to suggest new themes as well.
Collecting Websites with Archive-It
Harvard Library has a consortial account with Archive-It, a web archiving service developed by the Internet Archive. Harvard Library units primarily use this service for collecting and accessioning cultural heritage materials on the web. This service also acts as the primary access point for archival web collections by researchers.
Don't have an Archive-It account yet but think (or know) you need one? Please contact Stephen Abrams in Digital Preservation to initiate an account.
Harvard Library Archive-It Collections
- Explore the archival web content already collected by units throughout Harvard Library.
Archive-It User Guide
- Archive-It has extensive documentation of how to use their service, beginning with how to get started, through actually crawling websites, reviewing and QC.
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