ifla art libraries section 2014 presentation on nyarc webarchiving project with stephen bury

Making the black hole gray: web archiving at the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) = Quand le trou noir s’éclaircit:

l’archivage du web au NYARC (New York Art Resources Consortium)

Dr. Stephen Bury, Andrew W. Melon Chief Librarian, Frick Art Reference Library, New York

&

Walter Schlecht, former FARL intern

Préconference ILFA 2014 – Bibliotheques d’art, Paris, 12-14 août 2014

NYARC Collection Development

Internet Archive Search Page

Archive-It

Noguchi catalogue raisonné

Primo Discovery Layer Maquette

Archive-It site discovered via Primo

Explorit Discovery Layer (Deep Web Technologies)

M-LEAD II Internship

Selection

Missing Content

Blocked by Robots.txt files

Poor-quality captures

Comparing Live Versions to Archived Versions

Crawl Problems found in Backlog

Rating System

“Webarchivability”

1 - Good Web archiving candidate2- Some anticipated minor issues3 - Anticipated major issues4 - Very difficult to capture5 - Unsuitable for Web archiving

“Scope”

1 - priority for inclusion (as expressed by NYARC directors)

2 - high scholarly value / well aligned with NYARC collecting scope

3 - moderate scholarly value / less aligned with NYARC collecting scope

4 - low scholarly value5 - directory or database / out of

scope

Organizing Seeds Using Visual Display

The Importance of Preserving Ephemeral Materials