Category Archives: Archive-It

The Whole Earth Web Archive

Posted on October 30, 2019 by jefferson

As part of the many releases and announcements for our October Annual Event, we created The Whole Earth Web Archive. The Whole Earth Web Archive (WEWA) is a proof-of-concept to explore ways to improve access to the archived websites of … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive and Center for Open Science Collaborate to Preserve Open Science Data

Posted on September 24, 2019 by jefferson

Open Science and research reproducibility rely on ongoing access to research data. With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ National Leadership Grants for Libraries program, the Internet Archive (IA) and Center for Open Science (COS) will work … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive Partners with University of Edinburgh to Provide Historical Web Data Supporting Machine Translation

Posted on June 19, 2019 by jefferson

The Internet Archive will provide portions of its web archive to the University of Edinburgh to support the School of Informatics’ work building open data and tools for advancing machine translation, especially for low-resource languages. Machine translation is the process … Continue reading →

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“Make It Weird”: Building a collaborative public library web archive in an arts and counterculture community

Posted on October 18, 2018 by jefferson

This post is reposted from the Archive-It blog and written by guest author Dylan Gaffney of the Forbes Library, one of the public libraries participating in the Community Webs program. Whether documenting the indie music scene of the 1990s, researching the … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive and New York Art Resources Consortium Receive Grant for a National Forum to Advance Web Archiving in Art and Museum Libraries

Posted on May 15, 2018 by jefferson

We are pleased to announce that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has recently awarded a collaborative grant to the New York Art Resources Consortium and our Archive-It group to host a national forum event, along with associated … Continue reading →

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27 Public Libraries and the Internet Archive Launch “Community Webs” for Local History Web Archiving

Posted on February 28, 2018 by jefferson

The lives and activities of communities are increasingly documented online; local news, events, disasters, celebrations — the experiences of citizens are now largely shared via social media and web platforms. As these primary sources about community life move to the … Continue reading →

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Please: Help Build the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Web Archive

Posted on November 11, 2016 by jefferson

Help us build a web archive documenting reactions to the 2016 Presidential Election. You can submit websites and other online materials, and provide relevant descriptive information, via this simple submission form. We will archive and provide ongoing access to these … Continue reading →

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Hacking Web Archives

Posted on August 31, 2016 by jefferson

The awkward teenage years of the web archive are over. It is now 27 years since Tim Berners-Lee created the web and 20 years since we at Internet Archive set out to systematically archive web content. As the web gains … Continue reading →

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Two Grants Announced Supporting Web Archiving

Posted on April 26, 2015 by jefferson

We are excited to announce Internet Archive’s participation in two new grant-funded collaborative projects to advance the field of web archiving! Our Archive-It service, which works with libraries, archives, museums and others to provide the tools for institutions to create … Continue reading →

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University of California Libraries to partner with Archive-It

Posted on January 15, 2015 by jeff kaplan

This week, the University of California California Digital Libraries and the UC Libraries announced a partnership with Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service. In the coming year, CDL’s Web Archiving Service (WAS) collections and all core infrastructure activities, i.e., crawling, indexing, search, … Continue reading →

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