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British Library: RESAW 2025: Report from UK Web Archive Colleagues. “The RESAW (Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web) 2025 conference took place at the University of Siegen in Germany. It was organized by the Collaborative Research Centre 1187 ‘Media of Cooperation’ at the University of Siegen in cooperation with the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the […]

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Library of Congress: Preserving a History of Digital Mapmaking: Inside the Geospatial Software and File Formats Documentation Web Archive. “In this interview, Tim St. Onge and Meagan Snow explain how web archiving is preserving documentation essential to understanding the evolution of modern cartography. They outline the motivations behind the Geospatial Software and File Formats […]

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www.marginalia.nu · Finding Dead WebsitesAs some of the work planned for Marginalia Search this year has been progressing a bit faster than anticipated, there was time to implement an unplanned change. This post details the implementation of a system for detecting when servers are online, to avoid serving dead links and improve data quality, and for detecting when websites have significant changes including ownership transfers and parking. Table Of Contents Feature Rationale Data Representation Live Data Event Data Change Detection Details Availability Detection Ownership Changes DNS Implementation Hurdles Scheduling Certificate Validation Conclusions Feature Rationale Availability detection is useful not just for filtering out dead links in the search results, but for informing the crawler that it should stop trying to reach a dead domain, as well as a host of other things.
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[halshs-05113368] Neglect, Stammering, Focus: Processes of an #Archival Experience of #Archive Collections and #Audiovisual Projects at #AMU Posted on the Web Over the Past 30 Years
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shs.hal.scienceNeglect, Stammering, Focus: Processes of an Archival Experience of Archive Collections and Audiovisual Projects at AMU Posted on the Web Over the Past 30 YearsThe presentation aims to offer both a reflective history of practices and to highlight the challenges faced by a Mediterranean sound archives and research center at Aix-Marseille University, as the world of the web and its uses unfolds. The first email written from the UMR TELEMMe, my laboratory created in 1994 at the Université de Provence, was sent from the Sound Archives Department in 1995, yet it was never archived. The first online sound archives database, was created using MySQL in 1997, it left no trace. The first relational database software that facilitated the online publication and documentation of the sound archives dates back to the early 2000s, but it was only in 2005 that we thought to archive parts of this documentation on the Wayback Machine. In 2020, the database software the Sound archives center had been using was acquired and a retroconversion of all metadata was required. We did it in EAD format and made an export in DC format from the OAIPMH repository ; we hope the metadata of the new platform will soon be archived at CINES – it is the platform of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. The editorial projects of the "Pôle image-sons, pratiques du numérique" in which I have been involved since 1998, could now be described using terms like "new media" or "alternative narratives." These projects were online and operated with Adobe Flash. Fortunately, this time, we archived them using Conifer and the Wayback Machine before Flash's discontinuation in 2019. In recent months, we contacted INA for legal web deposit, and we are awaiting confirmation on whether the database will be included. The blog for the "Pôle images-sons pratiques du numérique" project, which captured content from the older site (the form is available on the Wayback Machine), is saved on the CINES servers by the platform Hypotheses itself. The web archiving process for projects from an archival center requires careful foresight. However, the first challenge is simply remembering to think about it. Using a data base daily fosters a form of negligence: tomorrow, I will still have access to the site, and the day after that as well. Yet, there comes a day when everything stops. As I write this summary, the Wayback Machine has been forced to suspend operations due to a cyberattack—a sobering reminder of the fragility of our web archiving efforts and the limited tools available to us.This presentation also aims to highlight the issue of web archive hosting, considering the various archiving spaces while recognizing the risks inherent in large, centralized spaces that host data and which are often seen as high-value targets for hackers.
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