WebArchivists

Workshops of the INA on web contents and their archiving

Chloé — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:16:55 +0000

Next month will start the workshops of the INA on web contents and their archiving. These eight sessions will be held every Friday from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Ina, from November to June.

The scientific direction of the workshops is provided by Louise Merzeau, Lecturer in Information and Communication, and Audrey Baneyx, responsible for the data center from Sciences-Po. For more information, go on their website.

Ina Address > Centre Pierre Sabbagh, room Cognac-Jay, 83-85 rue de Patay 75013 PARIS

You’ll be able to find all the dates of this seminar on our shared calendar of events, which will be very soon online.

[BnF] New video on Web Archiving and International Cooperation

Chloé — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:01:06 +0000

The BnF (National Library of France) attended to the General Assembly of the International Consortium for the preservation of the Internet (IFCI) in May 2011. A video was produced that reveals the challenges of web archiving.

(Original article on Les Actualités de la BnF)

This video is also available in Japanese, Arabic, German and Spanish.

Web Archiving and the IIPC – English from Abbey Potter on Vimeo.

A study about worldwide web archiving initiatives

Hans — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:42:44 +0000

The Portuguese Web Archive in currently conducting a study to analyze the efforts that are being committed world wide to web archiving initiatives.

The 3 questions are:

What is the name of your web archive initiative (please state if you want to remain anonymous)?
Which is the amount of data that you have archived (number of files, disk space occupied)?
How many people work at your web archive (in person/month)?

Any additional comments are welcome.

Please send your answers using this form.

If significant results are obtained, they will be published. These data can then be used to enrich our project of web archives world map, so we encourage all those responsible for web archiving projects to respond to this survey.

We will keep you informed of the publication of results.

WebArchivists at Mozilla Drumbeat Festival

Hans — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:17:29 +0000

We will be at Mozilla Drumbeat Festival, next week in Barcelona.

Following the discussion about a Drumbeat project on personal data portability, we will share our research on the project DoaB. We hope to meet developers, designers and potential users in order to share our points of view on this topic.

If you want to meet us, feel free to contact us by writing a comment here or on twitter.

Welcome to WebArchivists

Hans — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:13:29 +0000

A first article as an opening for this blog which, we hope, will allows you to discover web archiving.

We will try to share the great adventure of WebArchivists project, publishing regular features of the project’s progress. We hope your comments and your participation will help steer the many technical and design choices that lie ahead.

We hope that this space will be a real place of exchange, because this how we want to lead the project: participatory and user-oriented. Especially because we feel that our objective is very current : you have probably already been confronted with the disappearance of a site you like, a service that you use …

We choose to open this blog to anyone who would like to publish a post about web archiving, or one of many related subjects – storage technologies, archival science, open formats, copyright, legal deposit… So, feel free to contact us!

See you soon for the rest of the WebArchivists adventure.

The WA team.