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Journal of Western Archives

2017

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Developing Web Archiving Metadata Best Practices To Meet User Needs, Jackie M. Dooley, Karen Stoll Farrell, Tammi Kim, Jessica Venlet Mar 2017

Developing Web Archiving Metadata Best Practices To Meet User Needs, Jackie M. Dooley, Karen Stoll Farrell, Tammi Kim, Jessica Venlet

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The OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group was established to meet a widely recognized need for best practices for descriptive metadata for archived websites. The Working Group recognizes that development of successful best practices intended to ensure discoverability requires an understanding of user needs and behavior. We have therefore conducted an extensive literature review to build our knowledge and will issue a white paper summarizing what we have learned. We are also studying existing and emerging approaches to descriptive metadata in this realm and will publish a second report recommending best practices. We will seek broad community …

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Collaboration Made It Happen! The Kansas Archive-It Consortium, Cliff Hight, Ashley Todd-Diaz, Rebecca Schulte, Michael Church Mar 2017

Collaboration Made It Happen! The Kansas Archive-It Consortium, Cliff Hight, Ashley Todd-Diaz, Rebecca Schulte, Michael Church

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This case study explores the formation, current membership, and future goals of the Kansas Archive-It Consortium (KAIC), one of the larger consortia contracting with the Web archiving service Archive-It. KAIC, which is composed of the state historical society and five public universities, has its foundation in a statewide culture of collaboration, and participants have agreed on an informal governance structure with a strong commitment to broadening accessible web resources for researchers. After establishing consortial consistency during its first two years, members have shared documentation with partners and are beginning to do collaborative collecting. In the future, the consortium will seek …

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Using Rss To Improve Web Harvest Results For News Web Sites, Gina M. Jones, Michael Neubert Mar 2017

Using Rss To Improve Web Harvest Results For News Web Sites, Gina M. Jones, Michael Neubert

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In the last several years, the Library of Congress Web archiving program has grown to include large sites that publish news–over more than a year we learned they present serious challenges. After thinking through the use cases for archived online news sites, we realized that completeness of harvest was paramount. As we developed our understanding of deficiencies in the completeness of these kinds of sites we began to test use of RSS feeds to build customized seed lists for shallow crawls as the primary way these sites are crawled. Over time we discovered that while completeness of harvest was greatly …

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Case Study: Washington And Lee's First Year Using Archive-It, Alston B. Cobourn Mar 2017

Case Study: Washington And Lee's First Year Using Archive-It, Alston B. Cobourn

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This case study reviews the planning, methodology, and lessons learned during the first year of Washington and Lee University Library's web archiving program.

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Introduction To The Special Issue On Web Archiving, Nicholas Taylor Mar 2017

Introduction To The Special Issue On Web Archiving, Nicholas Taylor

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This article serves as an introduction to the Journal of Western Archives Special Issue on Web Archiving. It provides a snapshot of and reflections on the state of the field, as well as an overview of the works that constitute the issue.

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Review Of Teaching With Primary Sources, J. Gordon Daines Iii Jan 2017

Review Of Teaching With Primary Sources, J. Gordon Daines Iii

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Review of Teaching with Primary Sources.

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21st Century Community Outreach And Collection Development: Asu Chicano/A Research Collection, Nancy L. Godoy-Powell, Elizabeth G. Dunham Jan 2017

21st Century Community Outreach And Collection Development: Asu Chicano/A Research Collection, Nancy L. Godoy-Powell, Elizabeth G. Dunham

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Mexicans and Mexican Americans have resided in Arizona since the early 16th century. Their history, however, is severely under-documented in the state’s archival repositories. As of 2012, this community is represented in a mere 1-2% of the state’s known archival holdings, and 98% of such documentation is held at Arizona State University’s Chicano/a Research Collection (CRC). This article provides a historical review of the CRC’s establishment in 1970 and how its founding Curator, Dr. Christine Marín, transformed a small circulating book collection into Arizona’s largest repository for Mexican American history. It goes on to examine how the CRC’s sitting Archivist …

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Out Of The Vault: Developing A Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon To Enhance Public Programming For University Archives And Special Collections, Rose Sliger Krause, James Rosenzweig, Paul Victor Jr. Jan 2017

Out Of The Vault: Developing A Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon To Enhance Public Programming For University Archives And Special Collections, Rose Sliger Krause, James Rosenzweig, Paul Victor Jr.

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Academic libraries are more cognizant of their public program offerings than ever before. How does this shift impact the university archives and special collections? How does this area of the academic library meet the challenge of public programming that engages their users with their core missions? At Eastern Washington University (EWU), a regional comprehensive university, library and archives staff collaborated to develop a Wikipedia edit-a-thon that would provide an opportunity for undergraduate students to 1) expose them to archival materials, and 2) provide them with experience in collaborative knowledge creation. This article reviews the literature on the use of the …

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Review Of Digital Preservation Essentials, Tawnya Mosier Keller Jan 2017

Review Of Digital Preservation Essentials, Tawnya Mosier Keller

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Review of Digital Preservation Essentials.

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Review Of Appraisal And Acquisition Strategies, Jean Deken Jan 2017

Review Of Appraisal And Acquisition Strategies, Jean Deken

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Review of Appraisal and Acquisition Strategies.

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