Open call, August 26: Web Archiving & COVID-19
Please join your colleagues for a moderated panel and open discussion about COVID-19 web archive collections, their scopes, management, and access as they continue to grow. We welcome your experience, questions, and ideas.
Web archivists have already collected 35+ TB of web data from thousands of sites about the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and its effects on their communities, research areas, and institutions. Archive-It web archiving partners will introduce how they selected web data for curation and preservation, the networks that they use to cover the vast scope of the pandemic and its impacts, and their ambitions to enhance end user access to a new and important global archival resource. Guest speakers will include: Zakiya Collier (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library); Margaret Huang (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries); and Alex Thurman (Columbia University, International Internet Preservation Consortium).
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Hi Jeremy! We do not plan to record the conversation live, however you can most definitely look forward to a thorough summary of the themes, questions, and advice covered in the form of an Archive-It blog post. I'll be sure to link it here and elsewhere as soon as it is ready to share, in order to keep the conversation going.
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Here is a summary of the major themes and ideas from our recent open call about curating COVID-19 web archive collections: Crawling COVID-19: What (and how) web archivists collect.
Please don't hesitate to share new questions that these observations raise, here and at the upcoming Archive-It Virtual Partner Meeting.
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