Title: What do web archivers (or is it archivists) really do?
1What do web archivers (or is it archivists)
really do?
- Gina JonesLibrary of CongressWebarchivist
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12Roles and Responsibilities
- Acquire (collect)
- Make available - organize, describe
- Preserve
13Acquire/Collect
- Understands
- the tools that allow the web archivist to acquire
content. - The archiving decisions that a web archivist can
greatly impact any archiving effort. - the collection plan/strategy.
- the web.
- how to draw the curator into the process.
14LC Nomination Tool
15Hillary Clinton's 2008 Campaign Web Site
16Hillary Clinton's 2008 Campaign Web Site (con't)
17Scoped Web Site, More than Just an URL
http//www.hillaryclinton.com/ http//hillaryclin
ton.com http//(com,flickr,www,)/photos/hillarycl
inton http//(com,myspace,www,)/hillaryclinton h
ttp//(com,myspace,blog,)/index.cfm?fuseactionblo
g.viewfriendID163712750 http//(com,myspace,blo
g,)/index.cfm?fuseactionblog.ListAllfriendID163
712750 http//(com,youtube,)/hillaryclinton http
//(com,youtube,www,)/hillaryclinton http//(com,
eons,community,)/members/profile/hillaryclinton h
ttp//www.thehillaryiknow.com/ http//hillaryhub.
com http//hillblazers.com http//www.hillarysto
re.com/ http//(com,twitter,)/hillaryclinton
18CDL's Web Archiving Service
19Internet Archive's Archive-It
20Make Available
- Must use and understand the tool that allows
users to view and navigate web archives. - Drive the continued development of the tool to
allow the users to view and navigate web
archives. - Assist in the process of developing descriptive
metadata.
21Library of Congress Web Archives
22LC Metadata Object Descriptive Schema (MODS)
Record
23Preserve
- The web archivist needs to understand what is in
the archives so that access can be preserved.
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28Questions?
- Library of Congress Web Archiving Team
- http//www.loc.gov/webarchiving/
- Library of Congress Web Archives
- http//www.loc.gov/lcwa