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UBC Library Web Archiving 2016
- 1. UBC LIBRARY WEB ARCHIVING Presentation to UBC Library Community L A R I S S A R I N G H A M , L I B R A R I A N , D I G I T A L P R O J E C T S C A R O L I N A R O M A N A M I G O , S T U D E N T L I B R A R I A N , D I G I T A L P R O J E C T S
- 2. 2 TODAY … 1. Why web archiving? 2. Benchmarking/research project 3. Web archiving at UBC 4. How Archive-it works 5. What’s next?
- 5. 5 • 18 University of Victoria • 17 University of Alberta • 10 University of Toronto • 6 University of British Columbia • 6 Wilfrid Laurier University • 4 University of Winnipeg • 4 University of Manitoba • 3 University of Waterloo • 3 Simon Fraser University • 1 University of Waterloo & Toronto • 1 University of Saskatchewan • 1 Dalhousie University • 1 Carleton University (MacOdrum Library) WEB ARCHIVING BENCHMARKING – CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES NUMBER OF COLLECTIONS PER INSTITUTION ON ARCHIVE-IT 12 Canadian Universities have Web Archiving Initiatives.
- 6. 6 COLLECTION SCOPE – TYPE OF CONTENT Institution owned/ affiliated website Subject specific relevant websites Federal/Local governmental websites Local relevant events Local organizations Research projects Local news Local heritageInternatio nal events
- 7. 7 COLLECTION SCOPE – REASONS FOR ARCHIVING Public or scholarly interest Preserving institution produced content Historical or geographically local significance At risk or to be Decommissio ned Supplement existing collection Born digital resource
- 8. 8 ACCESS TO WEB ARCHIVING COLLECTIONS WHERE ARE THEY AVAILABLE? DO THEY HAVE A DEDICATED PAGE? HOW ARE THEY LINKED? Usually under digital/archives or special collections Large majority has a dedicated page to Web Archives Initiative Usually linked to Archive-it institution page Under subject guides Under additional resources Featured on library home page LESS OFTEN: Direct link for live webpages Restricted access link Direct link for archived webpages LESS OFTEN:
- 9. 9 • Ownership remains with website owner and university has no liability. • Authorization is granted to educational purposes, since observing copyright restrictions from website owners. OWNERSHIP, LIABILITY, AUTHORIZATION • Only notifies owners/asks permission in case of technological protected content. • Accepts takedown requests. NOTIFICATION AND TAKEDOWN POLICIES ADOPTED BY TOP 3 WEB ARCHIVES INITIATIVES AMONG CANADIAN UNIVERSITITES
- 10. 10 WEB ARCHIVING AT UBC
- 11. 11 * Pilot * Federal Government Websites • Partnered with HSS Library First Nations and Indigenous Communities Websites • Partnered with Xwi7wxa Library 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite • Partnered with HSS Library UBC WEB ARCHIVING PROJECTS TO DATE
- 12. 12 UBC Asian Library Historical Websites • Partnered with Asian Library UBC Conferences and Events UBC Community and Partners • Partnered with Faculty of Education, UBC Press
- 13. 13 HOW ARE WE COLLECTING THE WEB CONTENT?
- 15. 15 HOW ARCHIVE-IT WORKS 1st add seeds 2nd add scope rules
- 20. 20 UBC Archive-it collection homepage https://archive-it.org/organizations/734 HOW ARCHIVE-IT WORKS
- 21. 21 NEXT STEPS
- 22. 22 BC Local Government Websites • Collaborative project with UBC / UVic / SFU UBC.ca Institutional Website • Partnership with UBC Archives COMING UP NEXT ……
- 23. 23 • Metadata enhancement • Access and discoverability • Assessment and analytics • Preservation with Archivematica …. AND ON THE HORIZON
- 24. 24 HOW DO I PROPOSE A WEB ARCHIVING PROJECT?
- 25. 25 1. Research, public or governmental interests relevant for teaching or research 2. Historically or geographically local significance 3. Complementarity to relevant existing collections 4. Content produced by the university or affiliated organizations WEB ARCHIVING: CONTENT PRIORITIES
- 26. 26 Risk of disappearance Originality Frequency of update Resource constraints Duplication Access WEB ARCHIVING PROJECT PROPOSALS
- 27. 27 HOW ARE WEB ARCHIVING PROJECTS STRUCTURED? Source: Bragg, M., & Hanna, K. (2013). The Web Archiving Life Cycle Model (Publication). Internet Archive.
- 28. 28 Stakeholder / project partner • proposes the project • identifies the content • performs final QA check WEB ARCHIVING PROJECT ROLES Digital Initiatives • evaluates project against the policy criteria • scopes project and assesses for resources • performs the archiving crawls • performs initial QA checks • creates and applies metadata • makes content available
- 29. 29 Technical limitations with the Archive-it crawler SOME THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND …. including but very much not limited to …. JavaScript Silverlight Dynamic databases Password protected content Streaming media
- 30. 30 Web archives team SOME THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND …. [image not found]
Editor's Notes
- What do we mean by “web archiving”? Collecting targeted web sites and web content for preservation and access [why it is important] More and more content is being born digital, and not all of it is being captured digital preservation programs capture documents and files, but that is not all the *web content* Many sites are abandoned or taken down and that content is lost forever UBC Library, through digital initiatives, has been doing web archiving since 2013 using the archive-it service from the internet archive (will take more about that a bit later) - Our archiving activities have so far been very much an off-the-side of the desk activity and in response to specific, time-sensitive preservation issues. But now we wanted to think about the program a bit more strategically and take the initiative to the larger library community to hear what you would want to see as web archiving activity at UBC. Now: Carolina … research
- Examples of subject specific relevant websites: University of Alberta Energy/Environment Collection, and Circumpolar Collection. Examples of Local relevant events: Alberta Floods June 2013
- Public or scholarly interest: from websites relevant to research to governmental websites. Examples of historical or geographically local significance: B.C. Teachers' Labour Dispute (2014) (Uvic) Examples of at risk or to be decommissioned webpages: Edmonton Public Library - Orphaned Collections (University of Alberta)
- So, how did we get into web archiving? 2013 CGI-PLN group learned that the federal government websites were being replaced, UBC took part in an initiative to archive them Pilot project and in retrospect it was not ideal for a pilot given the size of what we captured But we were pressed for time, and had a little over a month Almost 1million pages archived After that we partnered with Xwi7xwa library to build another collection to capture FN and indigenous community content Much here is an example of endangered community content, and a good example of what I was talking about at the beginning regarding the ephemerality of web content These sites were largely outdated, not properly maintained often due to the community organizations no longer being in existence. In some cases we were not successful in capturing the content, sometimes due to technical reasons and once being the site itself was hijacked But they are a valuable source of community content for researchers and students.
- We are using Archive-it Archive-It is a subscription web archiving service from the Internet Archive that helps organizations to harvest, build, and preserve collections of digital content. Archive-It allows us to collect, and manage our collections of archived content in an openly accessible format and with full text search available Content is hosted and stored at the Internet Archive data centers. [Relationship between the internet archive, archive it, wayback machine] Archive-it is essentially a managed version of the wayback machine. - The IA’s wayback machine crawls web content constantly but indiscriminately - Archive-it allows us to build custom collections based on the needs of what we are collecting, and gives us control over what is crawled and how often
- I’m going to let Carolina walk us through the steps of a crawl so you can get the basic idea of the capture process.
- Our collections are accessible through this institutional collection page [go to live site for demo]
- Due to the fact that we do not have a vast office of bodies dedicated to the task of web archiving – projects are assessed on a case by case basis against a set of criteria.
- Web archiving program is run out of digital initiatives. For the most part we do not actively identify and select content for recruitment, we rely on the subject matter experts, librarians, faculty members and others to bring potential content to our attention.
- The web archiving team consists of myself, and through to the end of August, Carolina. Resource constraints