museumsandtheweb.com - Web archiving

Preserving the Web Content of the 21st Century: How the Internet Archive, Museums and Art Libraries can work together on Collection, Curation and Access

lorimd — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:13:36 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

Web archiving

Keywords:

Digital Technologies

Keywords:

cultural preservation

Keywords:

digital preservation

Abstract:

While most museums and art libraries put a great deal of effort into establishing a dynamic and engaging web presence for their institution, many are not currently preserving their own web presence or web content related to their institution's mission or collecting policies. This session will combine elements of a panel discussion on the importance of web archiving and provide use cases of museums, discussing best practices, lessons learned, challenges and successes.

Lori Donovan of the Internet Archive will give a demonstration of the web archiving service Archive-It and discuss how Archive-It can help museums and other cultural institutions preserve relevant information on the web, including their own web presence - their main website and social media sites - as well as content from artists, auction houses or other collecting areas.

Elizabeth Skene, Curator of Collections at the Arab American National Museum will present a case study of how the Arab American National Museum has selected which web content is relevant and worth saving and how they've used Archive-It to capture and preserve web content on Arab Americans in politics, art and other public positions.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

MW2012 Demonstrations I

Site:

http://archive-it.org

Authors:

Lori Donovan

Elizabeth Skene

What If Web Archiving Were as Reliable As Pushing a Simple Button?

Chloé Martin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:24:36 +0000

MW2011

Chloé Martin, France Lasfargues and Leïla Medjkoune, Internet Memory Foundation, France

http://internetmemory.org

Abstract

Web content is, by nature, ephemeral: sites are constantly disappearing; others are frequently updated, involving the removal of online information. This medium continues to grow in our society: many museums and cultural heritage institutions are developing websites with a variety of content (videos, forums, blogs, online exhibitions, catalogues) creating a large media-centric Web sphere of unique value. As with any other medium before, it is becoming essential to preserve this Web sphere of cultural and historical value. From this point of view, Web archiving is becoming a key part of today's heritage conservation.

Keywords: Web archiving, Preservation, Internet, Collection, State of the Art

Program Item Reference:

Web Archiving Workshop

Mini-Workshop on Web Archiving

dbear — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:14:07 +0000

Type:

Session

Programs:

Web Archiving Workshop

Date & Time:

April 8, 2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am

Location:

Commonwealth C/D

Web archiving

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

Is your website ephemeral because you want it to be or because you don't know how to save it?