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This page is contains a curated list of resources to support Harvard Library colleagues that are seeking training and education in web archiving.
Who is it for?
- Harvard Library collectorsNew web archives practitioners seeking to start up their web archiving project or programAdministrators
- Experienced web archives practitioners looking for a specific resource
- Managers and curators that want to know whether web archiving fits in their program
- Library colleagues Any Harvard Library colleague, even those with no responsibilities in web archiving that are just interested in learning
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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.
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Collecting Websites with Conifer
Some Harvard Library units archivists utilize Conifer, a free web collecting platform, to collect websites. Conifer offers a more intimate, manual process of crawling websites, which can result in a higher success rateof rate of capturing more complex elements of a web page, such as videos and multimedia. Because it is let less "automatic," it can also help users collect websites that may be behind security measures likes passwords. Once collected, the files are then uploaded and accessed through the collecting unit's Archive-It account.
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