1. INTRODUCTION web
AN
ARCHIVING
to
JAIME MCCURRY
NATIONAL DIGITAL STEWARDSHIP RESIDENT
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY : FEBRUARY 19, 2014

2. ndsr …
nATIONAL DIGITAL STEWARDSHIP
RESIDENCY PROGRAM
1) BORN-DIGITAL ASSET INVENTORY
2) WEB COLLECTION MANAGEMENT

3. WEB ARCHIVING
… what is it?

4. WEB ARCHIVING IS …
the process of
collecting portions of
the World Wide Web,
preserving the
collections in an
archival format, and
then serving the
archives for access
and use. (iipc)

5. Web archiving is…
Collecting: “web crawlers” harvest content from seed urls
through organized web crawls.
Preserving: crawl results and descriptive metadata are
organized into digital “warc” preservation files
Access and use: captured content is made accessible through
browser tools or portals

6. Access example
The internet archive’s
wayback machine:
fsl captures, 2011

7. step by step
Define Collecting Scope
Select Seed URLs
Define Crawl Frequency
Set Crawl Limits
Perform Crawl
Archive and Describe
Provide Access

8. WEB ARCHIVING
… why?

9. Why?
Link analysis
Text analysis
Geographic analysis
Trends in technology

10. Why?
Web
archiving
Digital
“woe,
Destruction,
Ruin,
& decay.”

11. h#p://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/
north-­‐korea-­‐erases-­‐kim-­‐jongun-­‐uncle-­‐archives
Why?
accountability
h#ps://archive-­‐it.org/collec@ons/386

12. Why?
historic preservation
h#p://www.ny@mes.com/2013/09/24/us/
poli@cs/in-­‐supreme-­‐court-­‐opinions-­‐clicks-­‐that-­‐
lead-­‐nowhere.html

13. Why?
scholarly preservation

14. Why?
Cultural preservation
Apple
Website: November 2001
Aol: december1996

15. 17 years ago…
h#p://web.archive.org/web/19970220090612/h#p://www.folger.edu/

16. Library of congress
collection
examples
h#p://www.loc.gov/websites/collec@ons/

17. Uk national archives
Collection examples
h#p://www.na@onalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/

18. folger library
… web archives

19. Fsl web archives
http://archive-it.org/organizations/576
Mission: to preserve and enhance our collection; to make our
collection accessible to scholars and others who can use it
productively; and to advance understanding and appreciation of
shakespeare’s writings and the culture of the early modern
world.

20. Fsl web archives

21. Fsl web archives

22. be aware…

23. Fsl in the future?
Shakespeare in the media
Prominent modern actors and actresses
What’s next?

24. Fsl in the future?
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY =
1/19 “OTHER” INSTITUTIONS (ARCHIVE-IT)
305 TOTAL COLLECTING PARTNERS
= LESS THAN 6%
LESS THAN 13% OF COLLECTING INSTUTIONS
2012 NDSA (LoC) web archiving SURVEY

25. Contact information
Jaime mccurry
National digital stewardship resident
jmccurry@folger.edu