"woe, destruction, ruin, and decay:" an introduction to web archiving
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AN INTRODUCTION
to ARCHIVING web
JAIME MCCURRY NATIONAL DIGITAL STEWARDSHIP RESIDENT
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY : FEBRUARY 19, 2014
ndsr …
nATIONAL DIGITAL STEWARDSHIP
RESIDENCY PROGRAM
1) BORN-DIGITAL ASSET INVENTORY
2) WEB COLLECTION MANAGEMENT
ARCHIVING WEB … what is it?
WEB ARCHIVING IS …
the process of
collecting portions of
the World Wide Web,
preserving the
collections in an
archival format, and
then serving the
archives for access
and use. (iipc)
Web archiving is…
Collecting: “web crawlers” harvest content from seed urls
through organized web crawls.
Preserving: crawl results and descriptive metadata are
organized into digital “warc” preservation files
Access and use: captured content is made accessible through
browser tools or portals
Access example
The internet archive’s
wayback machine:
fsl captures, 2011
step by step
Define Collecting Scope
Select Seed URLs
Define Crawl Frequency
Set Crawl Limits
Perform Crawl
Archive and Describe
Provide Access
ARCHIVING WEB … why?
Why?
Link analysis
Text analysis
Geographic analysis
Trends in technology
Why?
Web
archiving
Digital
“woe,
Destruction,
Ruin,
& decay.”
Why? accountability
h#p://www.th
eguardian.com/w
orld/201
3/de
c/16
/no
rth-‐korea-‐erases-‐kim
-‐jongun
-‐uncle-‐archives
h#ps://archive-‐it.org/collec@ons/386
Why? historic preservation
h#p://[email protected]/2013/09/24/us/poli@cs/in-‐supreme-‐court-‐opinions-‐clicks-‐that-‐lead-‐nowhere.html
Why? scholarly preservation
Why? Cultural preservation
Apple Website: November 2001 Aol: december1996
17 years ago…
h#p://web.archive.org/web/19970220090612/h#p://www.folger.edu/
Library of congress
collection examples
h#p://www.loc.gov/websites/collec@ons/
library folger … web archives
Fsl web archives
http://archive-it.org/organizations/576
Mission: to preserve and enhance our collection; to make our
collection accessible to scholars and others who can use it
productively; and to advance understanding and appreciation of
shakespeare’s writings and the culture of the early modern
world.
Fsl web archives
Fsl web archives
be aware…
Fsl in the future?
Shakespeare in the media
Prominent modern actors and actresses
What’s next?
Fsl in the future?
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY =
1/19 “OTHER” INSTITUTIONS (ARCHIVE-IT)
305 TOTAL COLLECTING PARTNERS
= LESS THAN 6%
LESS THAN 13% OF COLLECTING INSTUTIONS 2012 NDSA (LoC) web archiving SURVEY
