Poster presented by Maureen McCormick Harlow and Jaime McCurry at the Library of Congress Digital Preservation 2014 Meeting.

1. JaimeMcCurry
NDSR,FolgerShakespeareLibrary
MaureenMcCormickHarlow
NDSR,NationalLibraryofMedicine
As 2013-2014 National Digital Stewardship Residents, we worked on separate web archiving projects at the National Library of Medicine and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Both projects concluded
in the creation of new collections. We were able to experience all aspects of the process of creating a new collection and each project environment allowed us to further focus our attention on
particular aspects of the web collecting cycle. For Maureen, it was choosing a theme that was just the right fit for NLM’s unique collections. For Jaime, it was performing outreach services to inform
and collaborate with the Folger staff and user audience to generate interest in and advocate for web collecting activities.
Web Archiving in Practice
CHOOSINGATHEME
PICKINGPERSPECTIVES
COLLECTIONOUTREACH
COMMUNITYINVOLVEMENT
RAISINGAWARENESS
@mcmharlow @jaime_ann
#NDSR
#WEBARCHIVING
Theme should augment existing collections and goals, filling
known collecting gaps, if possible. Maureen’s theme: Autism and
Alzheimer’s on the Web.
Web collections are great for the first-person perspective! Choose
perspectives that would be difficult to collect in the analog world.
!
For this, a mix of first- and third-person resources were chosen:
• Current Understanding
• Patient Perspective
• Caregiver Perspective
• Research
• Causes
• Treatment
• Prevention (for Alzheimer’s only)
RIGHTS&PERMISSIONS
All blog owners were contacted before content was
collected. Each owner agreed to have his/her blog included
in the collection. This inspired its own blog content, as
bloggers blogged about being collected by NLM.
COLLECTIONS
Disorders of the Developing
and Aging Brain:
Autism and Alzheimer’s
on the Web
NLM FSL
William Shakespeare’s
450th Birthday:
Celebrations and
Commentary
Discuss new collections with institutional stakeholders. Obtain
feedback and adjust/enhance as necessary. Announce new
initiatives on institutional social media and web platforms and
external platforms where available.
Educate your colleagues and your user audience on web
archiving: what it is, how it’s done, why it is relevant to the
institution and to their interests. Utilize institutional web and
blog platforms. Conduct internal presentations and present
externally when possible at related events, meetups, and
conferences.
Invite comments and suggestions for growth from your
colleagues and your user audience through the utilization of
online forms and social media contact points. Create a contact
email for the web archives administrator. Open up a forum
for discussion in the comments section of relevant blog posts.
Discuss the topic on social media and at professional events.
NLM
FSL
A working-draft permissions policy was created in which
web archives administrators agreed to remove harvested
web content on a case-by-case basis upon request by site
owner(s).