https://lab.depositar.io/news/250418_1/

The depositar team were at the Web Archiving Conference 2025 in Oslo, Norway, and reported on our progress in converting the web archives of a recently orphaned newspaper into accessible article collections in the IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) standard format for long-term preservation and data exploration.

The slideset and the script of the presentation can be found at the depositar:

https://pid.depositar.io/ark:37281/k5p3h9k37

Gil Hoggarth continues on at the #iipcWAC25 "Tools Under Construction" describing the mitigation plan he executed after the UK Web Archive cyberattack. "We developed our solutions separately from the dev pattern and resources from the British Library" #webarchiving

Archiving everything on the web isn't an option. So we need better tools and methods for making decisions about what is in need of #WebArchiving.

Here is a short case study in evaluating how much the US Census FTP site has been archived by the @internetarchive and the End of Term Web Archive--both are critical pieces of memory infrastructure.

https://inkdroid.org/2025/04/08/census/

Thanks to @andrewjbtw for doing the heavy lift of collecting the data. All potential errors are my own.

Hi fedi, another question re #SafeguardingResearch:

We got a couple of #Tableau data/visualizations that we need to archive.
But: the download is limited to Image, PDF or PowerPoint.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/dutytoserve/vizzes

Update: Currently looking into automating the step 'downloading PDF, with all sheets of the workbook'.
Ideas on how to accomplish this?

@cloudflare seems to break #Webarchiving with its new AI labyrinth feature. Future webarchives will contain nonsense and not reflect the actual sites. @anj @internetarchive https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/

I've had the opportunity to hear Mark Graham speak on several occasions, and he is always such a good spokesperson for @internetarchive . But he really was in top form in this 2 part interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. He speaks on a wide variety of topics of interest to #webarchiving and #archives more generally, in a very circumscribed and personal way.

1. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/28/internet_archive_trump_admin_data_purge
2. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/28/extended_interview_mark_graham_on_internet

After 6+ years: a new version of Web Archiving Integration Layer (WAIL) for macOS!

Improvements include integration w/ Heritrix 3.7, support for  Silicon, many bug fixes & integrations. #webarchiving

https://matkelly.com/wail
brew install wail
https://github.com/machawk1/wail/releases/tag/v0.2025.03.03

I'm trying to archive a web page on FarceBook using archive.is, using a mobile browser and a cell network connection. So far it's taken at least half an hour and it's still going. WTF?!

All I want to see is the text and maybe the images FFS. #MakeJavaScriptOptional!

(1/?)

We're working on an update to the DIY #webarchiving #zine and are looking for recommendations for paid, secure, non-Google #Email Any suggestions? ProtonMail doesn't seem like a good option given the recent behavior of their CEO. (https://zinebakery.com/homemade-zines/bakeshop-2-diywebarchiving)

how to save stuff on the internet? short, sweet & useful zine on diy web archiving by @bitarchivist @webrecorder @quinnanya @annakijas @Literature_Geek https://zinebakery.com/homemade-zines/bakeshop-2-diywebarchiving #webarchiving

Love this! A 22-page DIY web archiving zine that "shows you why everyone should participate in preserving the things on the web they care about, and how anyone can do so (no special expertise required!)".

https://zinebakery.com/homemade-zines/bakeshop-2-diywebarchiving

#internet #TheWeb #archiving #WebArchiving

Made by @quinnanya, @Literature_Geek, and bunch of other awesome folks, found via @lavaeolus https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113873744698219704

Of the institutions and individuals leaving X now, have any declared an archive strategy for their posts?

Web archiving by @internetarchive does not work so well for these commercial and dynamic interfaces. So self-archiving would be essential (due to GDPR it's easy)

I hear almost nothing about this.

Interesting essay looking at link rot and disappearing online content from the perspective of a content creator:

https://www.theverge.com/24321569/internet-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture

In reading about the disappearing Chinese web this morning (thanks @liblaura) I'm reminded of Zhaohui Xue and Peter Chan's work at Stanford to archive the websites of Chinese grassroots non-governmental organizations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/business/china-internet-censorship.html?u2g=c&unlocked_article_code=1.xU0.-tOr.kGiByUfP8507&smid=url-share

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/chinese-ngos/

Hey #digipres folks, does anyone have any experience with reddit and #webarchiving? We're trying to figure out the ethical concerns involved, which feel lessened by the pervasive use of pseudonyms, but not entirely eliminated.

I'm finding that browsertrix crawler's ability to screenshot pages for QA is also a handy way to identify crawler traps for a live #WebArchiving crawl, where an infinite number of URLs get generated for the same page content. Yeah, there are sites like this...

https://crawler.docs.browsertrix.com/user-guide/qa/

At the moment I've just been using standard hash but perhaps some type of image hash could be useful too, for where the content is nearly identical, like a calendar trap.