Archive-It Community Moderators

About the program

Our Community Forum provides a space for those archiving the web to pose questions to one-another, share resources and offer advice. 

Community Moderators play an active role in promoting this resource by facilitating discussions, answering questions, sharing tips, and promoting usage of the forum.
Interested in volunteering your time or have any questions about the program? Please reach out to us at ait@archive.org.
 
Your Community Moderators


These Archive-It users have graciously stepped forward to help us build active and useful Community Forums.

Carolina Román Amigo

    •    Archiving the web since: January 2016


    •    Position: Digital Projects Student Librarian

, University of British Columbia Library
    •    Size of team: 2


    •    Favorite aspect of web archiving: It makes possible for the internet to have a long-term memory!


Emily Chen

•  Archiving the web since: I have been archiving the web since 2014 though the Bodleian has been archiving since 2011
•  Position: Digital Archivist Trainee, Bodleian Library
•  Size of team: 3
• Favorite aspect of web archiving: My favourite aspect of web archiving is when I solve a particularly tricky scoping issue. I love meeting other web archivists, I don’t think anyone else can really understand (or wants to) what it’s like!

Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig

    •    Archiving the web since: 2009


    •    Position: Electronic Records Archivist

, Smithsonian Institution
    •    Size of team: 1.5


    •    Favorite aspect of web archiving: Smithsonian websites and social media accounts contribute to a wealth of wonderful information on the internet. It is important that we are preserving a historic snapshot in time and have the ability to trace the evolution of the web and society. Even now web archives are important to today’s researchers, scientists, journalists, historians, and others, and it will continue to inform future generations.



Rachael Gardner

    •    Archiving the web since: 2015
    •    Position: Digital Archivist Trainee, Bodleian Library
    •    Size of team: 3
    •    Favorite aspect of web archiving: The satisfaction of adapting the crawl scope and getting a good capture as a result!

 
Nicholas Taylor

    •    Archiving the web since: 2010
    •    Position: Web Archiving Service Manager, Stanford University Libraries
    •    Size of team: 2
    •    Favorite aspect of web archiving: Sleuthing the traces of since-disappeared websites.
    •    Anything else: https://twitter.com/nullhandle

 
Nicholas Worby

 
    •    Archiving the web since: 2013
    •    Position: Government Information & Statistics Librarian, Web Archives Coordinator at the University of Toronto
    •    Size of team: 3
    •    Favorite aspect of web archiving: I’m always excited by the interesting ways in which researchers use and interact with web archives. I love that I get to help build collections that people use for an incredibly diverse range of purposes.
    •    Anything else: I have two litter trained and free range 13-year-old rabbits named Frank and Lucy.