Web Archiving: Issues and Challenges
More organizations are archiving web content than ever before, helping us
record and understand the world today. Our panelists will discuss their work
with archived web content, including collection development, preservation, and
accessibility.
When: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
5:30 pm: Registration and Refreshments
6:15 pm: Meeting and Program
Location: 476 Fifth
Avenue<https://www.google.com/maps?q=476+Fifth+Avenue&entry=gmail&source=g> (at
42nd Street)
The New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, Room 227
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Collaborative Web Archiving: Ivy Plus Libraries Web Collecting Program
By Samantha Abrams
Web archiving brings new challenges and opportunities into archival spaces, all
while the depth and ephemerality of the web demands collaborative archival
approaches. This presentation focuses on working together - institutionally and
otherwise - to capture the live web efficiently and comprehensively within Ivy
Plus Libraries (a partnership between thirteen leading academic research
libraries). First established as a pilot program in 2014, the now-permanent Ivy
Plus Libraries Web Collecting Program is a collaborative collection development
effort to build curated, thematic collections of freely available, but at-risk,
web content in order to support research at participating Libraries and beyond.
With sustainability and collection building as central themes, this
presentation will discuss experiences with outreach, collection policy
development, and maintenance of shared collections. What are the challenges
associated with this collaborative approach, and what can we learn about web
archiving by working together?
Samantha Abrams is the Web Resources Collection Librarian for Ivy Plus
Libraries, stationed at Columbia University. Before Columbia, Samantha worked
at StoryCorps, where she managed the organization's digital and physical
assets, including born-digital audio and photos, physical paperwork, and
electronic databases. Samantha has additional experience working in public
libraries, publishing, and as a corporate archivist for the fast-casual
restaurant chain Culver's. She holds a Master's degree in Library and
Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Bachelor's
degree in English and Creative Writing from the University of Iowa.
The Elusive Art of Capturing Elusive Art: NYARC's Art-Focused Web Archives
By Deborah Kempe
Beginning with a pilot project with Archive-It in 2007, the New York Art
Resources Consortium (NYARC), consisting of the libraries and archives of The
Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and The Frick Collection, has been
curating collections of web-based resources that reflect our libraries' focus
on art research. A series of grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation made
it possible to establish an ongoing web archiving program devoted to capturing,
preserving, and providing public access to web collections that correspond to
the strengths of the print collections at each research library, as well as to
NYARC project websites and the institutional websites of the three museums.
As anyone involved with the still-nascent practice of web archiving knows, the
issues and challenges are numerous, even limitless. Although significant
challenges remain for collecting and preserving web resources, there has been
steady progress in meeting them collaboratively, from local levels on up to
international efforts.
Deborah Kempe is Chief of Collections Management & Access at The Frick Art
Reference Library of The Frick Collection. Her previous positions were at the
Avery Art & Architectural Library of Columbia University and the libraries of
New York University, the New-York Historical Society, and the University of
Arkansas. She holds a BA with honors in Art History and a Masters in Library
and Information Science from the University of Missouri.
An active participant in international library consortia, she serves as a
member of the advisory groups for Art Discovery Group Catalogue, The Digital
Cicognara Library, Artifex Press, and the Getty Research Portal. She is a
director of NYARC (New York Art Resources Consortium) and served as the
Principal Investigator for a series of grants from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation that were instrumental in building a pioneering web archiving
program for born-digital art resources.
Why do we do it? Understanding the Research Value of Web Archives
By Pamela Graham
Libraries, museums and archives have been building web archives for more than a
decade. While the commitment to preserve and steward information is a widely
shared mission, why does this work matter to researchers? This talk explores
the research value, current and potential, of web archives to research and
learning. What do we know about web archive users and their needs? How do our
decisions about what to collect, methods of collecting, description, metadata
and access matter to the downstream use of the archived web? These questions
will be explored through reviewing the development of the Human Rights Web
Archive, a thematic collection of human rights information collected at
Columbia University Libraries, through its Center for Human Rights
Documentation & Research.
Pamela Graham is the Director of Humanities & Global Studies and Director of
the Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research at Columbia University
Libraries. She previously served as the Latin American & Iberian Studies
Librarian at Columbia and at Duke University. She was a member of the steering
group guiding the implementation of three successive Mellon Foundation grants
to develop the Web Resources Collection Program. Graham has worked on the
development of HRWA and has been interested in issues of collection development
and researcher use of web archives.
Event Fee(s):
Current Members
$15.00
Event + new or renewed membership $30.00
Event + new or renewed student
$20.00
Non-members
$40.00
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Tamara Fultz
Associate Museum Librarian
Watson Library
212 650 2443
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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New York, NY 10028
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