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Introduction
What is this?
This page is contains a curated list of resources to support Harvard Library colleagues that are seeking training and education in web archiving. It is an evolving list that will adapt and grow as technology shifts and additional resources become available.
Who is it for?
- New web archives practitioners seeking to start up their web archiving project or program
- Experienced web archives practitioners looking for a specific resource
- Managers and curators that want to know whether web archiving fits in their program
- Any Harvard Library colleague, even those with no responsibilities in web archiving that are just interested in learning
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Training Materials
Getting Started in Web Archiving
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Harvard Library is a member of the Ivy Plus Library Confederation (IPLC), a partnership between 13 leading academic libraries. IPLC hosts a Web Collecting Program that is a collaborative collection development effort focused on building curated, thematic archival web collections. Curators HL 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 approved, an IPLC web archivist will archive that website using the IPLC's Archive-It account.
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- Explore the archival web content already collected by units throughout Harvard Library.
Archive-It Informational
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Training Sessions and Webinars
- You can sign up for a pre-scheduled informational webinar or request one if there are not currently any available.
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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- If you utilize Conifer or another external collecting tool, or you collected someone else's legacy files, you can upload them to your Archive-It account alongside your other collections.
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Further Opportunities
Meetings & Events
Harvard Library's Web Archiving Discussion Group
- An excellent opportunity to connect with colleagues that are also interested and/or engaged in web archiving activities
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- A webcast offered by the Society of American Archivists through their Digital Archives Specialist curriculum.
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Buddy Program
If you have you been tasked with initiating web archiving activities in your library and wish to connect with one of your peers in another library unit that has experience, the Web Archives Discussion Group and and Digital Preservation can help identify a suitable peer unit for you to connect with. Please contact Tricia Patterson (Digital Preservation) or Jen Weintraub (Schlesinger Library) see the Web Archives Discussion Group wiki to contact the conveners for more information.
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Additional Resources
IIPC Awesome Web Archiving Github
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Contact Digital Preservation
Digital Preservation at Harvard Library offers general consultation and guidance in web archiving activities.
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Questions?
Suggestions? Hoping to find information you don't see here? Know of an excellent resource this page should include? Please contact Tricia Patterson in the DPS team in Preservation Services for assistance.
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