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Building Web Archiving Collaborations to Save [More of] the Web
Following the establishment of the web collecting program at Columbia University, multiple web archiving collaborations are taking shape within four project areas with the support of a three year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Through multifaceted approaches to collaborative web archiving we are actively engaging with four categories of stakeholders: colleagues at other research libraries, software developers, website creators and users or potential users of web archives. This work has been led by project staff responsible for web archiving and project management with supervision from a steering committee for web collecting at Columbia University Libraries. So far approximately fifty people across eleven institutions have been involved as selectors for pilot collections and six teams have received funds to support the development of better web archiving tools. This short paper will briefly detail the work completed from early 2013 through mid-April 2015 on these collaborative projects then introduce some points for next steps and further discussion
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Collaboration and Cash: Web Archiving Incentive Awards
This presentation was delivered in session 306 at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists (#saa15). These slides provide information about and lessons learned from the web archiving incentive awards program. The web archiving incentive awards program was made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation and administered via Columbia University Libraries with guidance from an external oversight panel. Links provided in this presentation are to facilitate further learning about the tools mentioned but are not a definitive set of resources about these tools
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Collaborative Web Archiving with Ivy Plus / Borrow Direct
These slides were presented at Web Archiving Collaboration: New Tools and Models (#cuwarc). This conference was hosted by Columbia University Libraries June 4-5, 2015
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Contemporary Composers Web Archive (CCWA): Progress in Collaboratively Collecting Composers' Websites
Laura Stokes (Brown University) and Anna Perricci (Columbia University) created these slides for a presentation at the annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres / IMS (#IAML2015) on June 24, 2015
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“Why archive?” and Other Important Questions Asked by Occupiers
As the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement began to take shape in Zuccotti Park—also known as Liberty Square—in New York City, an archives working group formed as a collective interested in preserving the physical and digital documents created by activists in the movement. Members of the Archives Working Group (AWG) were faced with a unique set of challenges, as well as the opportunity to address these challenges in an independent, non-hierarchical, non-institutional setting. Consensus-based decision-making drove the actions of the group, but competing visions also needed to be reconciled. Some of the most common questions about the role and function of archives required explanation, both within and beyond the working group. The desire and need to interact with the archives’ creators was integral to the establishment of the OWS AWG's collection. Managing relationships with any set of living donors is inherently complicated, and the occupiers we found ourselves working with represented a dynamic group of content creators and contributors. Activists ask a lot of questions. By definition activists are challenging the status quo. As members of the AWG, we were asked a lot of very valid questions including: “What is an archive? Is there a difference between art and archives?” “What are you collecting?” “Who will have access to what you are collecting?” “Where is this stuff going to be kept?” “Are you trying to collect all the archives produced in the movement?” “Why collect this?” and “Why not this?” “What do archivists do and why?” “Why should archives matter to people in the movement?” These questions and how we answered them serve as the foundation for this chapter. We will elaborate on our answers to activists’ questions and put forth an analysis of archival theory as related to some of the questions with especially complex implications. The formation of a digital archive also brought up some issues that are beyond those most relevant to the discussion of management of and access to analog archives. Part of this essay is dedicated to the ways in which we addressed these particular concerns. We will conclude with lessons learned in the process of creating a collection of physical and digital archives coming out of Occupy Wall Street in 2011-2012
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Lightning talk on MARC records for the Contemporary Composers Web Archive presented at #saa14 (Society of American Archivists 2014)
These slides supported a lightning talk on MARC records for the Contemporary Composers Web Archive presented in session 703 at #saa14 (Society of American Archivists 2014
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Establishing and growing a multi-institutional web archiving collaboration for the Collaborative Architecture, Urbanism and Sustainability Web Archive (CAUSEWAY)
A presentation created for the annual conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA 2015)
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Best Practices Exchange 2013: How collaboration can save [more of] the web: recent progress in collaborative web archiving initiatives
The goals of this conference presentation are to share case studies of evolving and thriving web archiving programs and inspire further discussion on how web archiving efforts can be strengthened through collaboration
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Assessment of the Effectiveness of the Human Rights Web Archive @ Columbia University
Web archiving encompasses several challenges that we face in the midst of the radical changes that are the focus of the ACRL-NY 2013 Symposium. Like many other interdisciplinary, wide-ranging and highly networked fields, human rights scholarship relies extensively on web-based information, but much of this content is at risk of disappearing within a relatively short time. To meet the needs of the scholarly community, the Human Rights Web Archive @ Columbia University (HRWA) was created. The HRWA (http://hrwa.cul.columbia.edu/) is a searchable collection of archived copies of human rights websites created by non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions, tribunals and individuals. In this poster we will detail our early progress in the assessment of the effectiveness of the HRWA through user testing and a review of scholarly publishing in journals focusing on human rights research. We will also discuss how keeping users actively engaged is at the core of our evolving collecting policy for web archives. In sharing our experiences with a collection development policy centered in an active and agile feedback loop, we hope to shed light on strengths and opportunities for growth including via collaborative initiatives
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Contemporary Composers Web Archive (CCWA): A Borrow Direct Composers Project
This poster was presented at the 2014 conference of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML). The poster highlights progress in the pilot project stages of the Contemporary Composers Web Archive (CCWA). As of 2014 CCWA can be found at https://archive-it.org/collections/4019