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- Click the seed you want to edit from your respective Collection
- Click the "Metadata" tab
- Click "Edit" and fill out the below fields
* When re-crawling a site, be sure to update the date range in the Archive–It metadata, and both the extent and the date range in the MARC/Holdings record. *
Title (title of the website) Tips:
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Description (similar MARC 520/545, shorten if needed) – Amber to add some guidance on this notnote
Publisher (if applicable)
- Institutional websites: The President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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Related Archival Materials (Skip this - does not currently work)
(Custom field) MMS: (9-digit MMS/Alma ID SeedID (ID number can be found by clicking on the seed in Archive-It - it is the string of digits at the end of the URL in the browser bar)
- This mainly serves our own administrative use/tracking since we can actually link out to the catalog for users. as a way of having a direct link to the seed in the public-facing Archive-It.
Example: https://archive-it.org/collections/4908?fc=meta_MMS%3A990131266760203941
See also: Creating a Seed Group and adding new seeds
Cataloging for Archived Websites
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- 245 10 $$a [title of website, plus the qualifier "archived website" in square brackets. ]
- Example: 245 10 $$a Harvard Medical School [archived website], $$f [Date/date range of capture]
- Note that the above title guidance only applies if the entire resource you're describing is an archived site. If the site is just one part of a larger manuscript collection/record group, you'll supply here the collection title (no qualifier needed).
- If the entire resource you're describing is an archived site, for the inclusive dates, use the website's extant dates. If you don't know the site dates, use the Archive-It crawl date(s) as your 245 date.
- Example: 245 10 $$a Harvard Medical School [archived website], $$f [Date/date range of capture]
- 300 _ _ $$a 7.98 $$f gigabytes ($$a 1 $$f archived website).
- If the collection you're cataloging includes both born-digital records on network storage and an archived website, enter those as two separate 300s.
- 655 _7 $$a Web archives. $$2 aat
- 245 10 $$a [title of website, plus the qualifier "archived website" in square brackets. ]
Holdings record:
- 852 8 _ $$b MED $$c NET $$h [Call number]
856 40 $$3 Archived website: [Website title- 852 8 _ $$b MED $$c NET $$h [Call number]
- NOTE: you only need to create one holdings record for all accessions. In $h, add all of the accession numbers.
- 856 40 $$3 Archived websites: [245 title, date/date range of capture] $$u [Archive-it url*]
- Make sure to update the dates every time you add a new accessions to the 852 $h field.
** The url we use to point to Archive-it sites is generated by clicking on the linked MSS ID from within Archive-it (this allows us to point to an Archive-it page that includes metadata). To get this url, when viewing the archived site information in Archive-it, click on the linked 9-digit ID under the MSS field. Then copy and paste the url from the browser. For example, the MMS-ID-based url for the Leston Havens site is: https://archive-it.org/collections/4908?fc=meta_MMS%3A990131266760203941
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Group Name in the public-facing Archive-It site.
Example catalog record: https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99013126676020394199155742015203941/catalog
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