December 13, 2018
by Nicholas Taylor
Digital preservation
Open source
We are pleased to announce a new look and website for the L…
Author: Nicholas Taylor
Upcoming seminar by digital humanities and internet studies scholar
Dovetailing our recent announcement of documentation of resources for research using web archives, we will be visited next month by an individual who has done much to advance web archives as materials of scholarly interest and exploration.
Resources for research using web archives
Since our collaboration with political science researchers using web archives to understand the 2014 U.S. congressional elections, we’ve seen (and, hopefully, helped foster) growing interest in web archives as primary source material. This trend parall…
Questions of ethics at Web Archives 2015
A welcome complement to the lately growing number of web archiving-specific events, the inaugural Web Archives: Capture, Curate, Analyze conference (tweet stream) brought together an eclectic crowd of researchers, instructors, students, archivists, lib…
Browsing the ancient Web with an ancient browser
The world’s first websites were built for very different rendering and navigation interfaces than the comparatively advanced browsers available today. Thanks to the work of web archivists (e.g., CERN, SLAC), we can celebrate the incongruity of accessin…
Recap of web archiving at SAA Annual Meeting
“What does it take to archive a linear foot of the Web?,” Anna Perricci posed rhetorically to our web archiving metrics breakout discussion group two weeks ago. I don’t yet have a good answer for what the question’s getting at, but I was gratified by t…
SUL developer wins Best Poster Award at JCDL
We’ve written before on our restoration of the oldest U.S. website, covering in detail how we did it and some interesting discoveries we made along the way.
Looking ahead from the 2015 IIPC General Assembly
A couple of weeks have passed since the successful conclusion of the annual IIPC General Assembly, hosted this year by Stanford University Libraries and Internet Archive.
Register now for the 2015 IIPC General Assembly
Once each year, the international web archiving community represented by the International Internet Preservation Consortium meets for a week-long “General Assembly”.
SUL joins the IIPC Steering Committee
We are pleased to announce the acceptance of our bid to join the IIPC Steering Committee, based on a vote by the IIPC membership. SUL joins the 15-member group as one of two currently-serving university library members (the other being the University o…