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March 2010, Corrected 3/31/10 ISSN: 0195-4857
TECHNICAL SERVICE S LAW LIBRARIAN Volume 35 No. 3 http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/ March 2010, corrected 3/31/10 ISSN: 0195-4857 INSIDE: Technical Services Law Librarian From the Officers OBS-SIS ..................................... 3 to be added to HeinOnline! TS-SIS ........................................ 4 AALL Headquarters and William S. Hein & Co. signed an agreement Announcements on December 2, 2009 that will permit TSLL to become available in a Renee D. Chapman Award ....... 31 fully-searchable image-based format as part of HeinOnline’s Law Librarian’s TS SIS Educational Grants ...... 13 Reference Library. TSLL to be added to Hein ........... 1 The Law Librarian’s Reference Library, currently in beta version, is accessible by subscription at http://heinonline.org/HOL/Index?collection=lcc&set_ as_cursor=clear. At present if a library subscribes to Larry Dershem’s print Columns version of the Library of Congress Classification Schedules it has free access Acquisitions ............................... 5 to this reference library. As part of this HeinOnline library TSLL will join such Classification .............................. 6 classic works as Library of Congress Classification schedules, Cataloging Collection Development ............ 8 Service Bulletin, Subject Headings Manual, and the Catalog of the Library of Description & Entry ................... 9 the Law School of Harvard University (1909). For more information about the The Internet .............................. 10 Law Librarian’s Reference Library see Hein’s introductory brochure at http:// Management ............................. 14 heinonline.org/HeinDocs/LLReference.pdf. MARC Remarks....................... 15 OCLC ....................................... 18 We’re hopeful TSLL will be accessible on HeinOnline in time for the AALL Preservation .............................. 19 Annual Meeting in July, but no timetable has yet been set … so stay tuned! Private Law Libraries .............. -
Appraisal Talk in Web Archives Ed Summers
Appraisal Talk in Web Archives ed summers ABSTRACT The Web is a vast and constantly changing information landscape that by its very nature seems to resist the idea of the archive. But for the last 20 years, archivists and technologists have worked together to build systems for doing just that. While technical infrastructures for performing web archiving have been well studied, surprisingly little is known about the interactions between archi- vists and these infrastructures. How do archivists decide what to archive from the Web? How do the tools for archiving the Web shape these decisions? This study analyzes a series of ethnographic interviews with web archivists to understand how their decisions about what to archive function as part of a community of practice. It uses critical discourse analysis to examine how the participants’ use of language enacts their appraisal decision-making processes. Findings suggest that the politics and positionality of the archive are reflected in the ways that archivists talk about their network of personal and organizational relationships. Appraisal decisions are expressive of the structural relationships of an archives as well as of the archivists’ identities, which form during mentoring relationships. Self-reflection acts as a key method for seeing the ways that interviewers and interviewees work together to construct the figured worlds of the web archive. These factors have implications for the ways archivists communicate with each other and interact with the communities that they document. The results help ground the encounter between archival practice and the architecture of the Web. Archivaria The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists Appraisal Talk in Web Archives 71 RÉSUMÉ Le Web est un paysage informationnel vaste et en changement constant qui, par sa nature même, semble s’opposer à l’idée de l’archive. -
Lost in the Infinite Archive: the Promise and Pitfalls of Web Archives
1 Lost in the Infinite Archive: The Promise and Pitfalls of Web Archives The Web is having a dramatic impact on how we research and understand the recent past. Historians, who have long laboured under conditions of source scarcity – we wish we had more information about the past, but it was not recorded or preserved – are now confronted with primary sources on a scale that defies both conventional methodologies and standard computational methods.1 Web archives offer profound promise. Take a comparative example. The Old Bailey Online describes its holdings of 197,745 trials between 1674 and 1913 as the ‘largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published’.2 The web archive of GeoCities, a platform for web publishing that operated from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, amounts to over 38 million pages. Eventually, historians will have access to billions of such sources written by people of various classes, genders, ethnicities, and ages. While the World Wide Web is not a perfect democracy, by any means and any of the categories listed above, it still represents a massive shift. As a result, web archives exemplify this conundrum and represent challenge as well as opportunity. What information do we want to access? How was the information collected? How do national boundaries intersect with the realm of the Internet? What are the implications of working with such large archives, collected without the informed consent or even knowledge of the overwhelming majority of contributors? These are pressing concerns. For the most part, historians cannot write histories of the 1990s unless they use web archives: with them, military historians will have access to the voices of rank-and- file soldiers on discussion boards; political historians, to blogs, the cut and thrust of 2 websites, electoral commentary and beyond; and of course, social and cultural historians, to the voices of the people on a scale never before possible. -
Studying and Documenting Web Archives Provenance Emily Maemura, Phd Candidate Faculty of Information, University of Toronto Netlab Forum February 27, 2018 the Team
If These Crawls Could Talk: Studying and Documenting Web Archives Provenance Emily Maemura, PhD Candidate Faculty of Information, University of Toronto NetLab Forum February 27, 2018 The Team Nich Worby Christoph Becker Ian Milligan Librarian, Assistant Professor Associate Professor, Web Archivist Director, Digital Curation Institute Digital Historian Emily Maemura Doctoral Candidate brought together through the Digital Curation Institute McLuhan Centenary Fellowship in Digital Sustainability 2016-17 and supported by SSHRC Number of Pages per Domain, Canadian Political Parties Collection, 2005-2015 http://lintool.github.io/warcbase/vis/crawl-sites/ Pages from “policyalternatives.ca” Sept. 2007 - Nov. 2009 Dec. 2009 - May 2015 over 200.000 less than 50.000 pages per crawl pages per crawl How are web archives made and used? How can we document or communicate this? Creating web archives Using web archives As a web archivist... As a researcher… What do I need to document What do I need to ask about for researchers using this data to have confidence in web archives material? the analysis and findings? Researcher Perspective: “Web Archives Research Objects” Maemura, Milligan, Becker, 2016. Understanding computational web archives research methods using research objects, Computational Archival Science Workshop at IEEE Big Data 2016 http://hdl.handle.net/1807/74866 How are web archives used by researchers? Can shared conceptual frameworks of research methods used with Web Archives collections help to systematize practices, advance the field, -
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Understanding Computational Web Archives Research Methods Using Research Objects
Understanding Computational Web Archives Research Methods Using Research Objects Emily Maemura, Christoph Becker Ian Milligan Digital Curation Institute Department of History University of Toronto University of Waterloo Toronto, Canada Waterloo, Canada [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] Abstract—Use of computational methods for exploration and traditionally focused on close readings of source materials analysis of web archives sources is emerging in new disciplines are moving to the use of distant reading methods [2]. such as digital humanities. This raises urgent questions about We highlight three critical factors to be considered for how such research projects process web archival material using computational methods to construct their findings. humanities researchers using web archives: This paper aims to enable web archives scholars to document 1) interrogating sources. – Understanding how these web their practices systematically to improve the transparency of their methods. We adopt the Research Object framework to archives collections were created is key to judging characterize three case studies that use computational methods the adequacy, appropriateness and limitations of the to analyze web archives within digital history research. We then source material. discuss how the framework can support the characterization 2) understanding new methods. – The use of emerging of research methods and serve as a basis for discussions of computational methods is a key prerequisite to work- methods and issues such as reuse and provenance. The results suggest that the framework provides an effective ing with large scale data sets. conceptual perspective to describe and analyze the computa- 3) transparency of the research process. – Findings are tional methods used in web archive research on a high level dependent on the validity of the computational pro- and make transparent the choices made in the process. -
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The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation Manuscript Submitted to Johns Hopkins University Press By: Trevor Owens June, 2017 2
1 The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation Manuscript Submitted to Johns Hopkins University Press By: Trevor Owens June, 2017 2 Table of Contents Acknowledgements 3 1. Beyond Digital Hype and Digital Anxiety 5 2. Artifact, Information, or Folklore: Preservation’s Divergent Lineages 11 3. Understanding Digital Objects 26 4. Challenges & Opportunities of Digital Preservation 39 5. The Craft of Digital Preservation 50 6. Preservation Intent & Collection Development 56 7. Managing Copies and Formats 70 8. Arranging and Describing Digital Objects 85 9. Enabling Multimodal Access and Use 104 10. Conclusions: Tools for Looking Forward 122 Bibliography 131 3 Acknowledgements I spent a year working on this book, but it represents the culmination of about a decade of trying to make my own sense of digital preservation. As such, I have a lot of people to acknowledge. The strengths of this book come from the international digital preservation community I’ve been welcomed into. Its’ weaknesses are my own. I first learned about digital preservation in my time at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Before he passed away, Roy made an extensive and lasting impression those of us lucky enough to work for him. My constant hope is that the compassion, dedication, and pragmatism Roy brought into every day of his work at the Center comes through in my own. My understanding and appreciation for issues in digital history and digital preservation were sparked by four years of discussion and collaboration with colleges there; Dan Cohen, Josh Greenberg, Sean Takats, Tom Scheinfeldt, Sharon Leon, Sheila Brennan, Dave Lester, Jeremy Boggs, Jim Safley, Kari Kraus, Connie Moon Sehat, Miles Kelly, Mindy Lawrence, Jon Lesser, Kris Kelly, Ken Albers, Faolan Cheslack-Postava, John Flatness, Dan Stillman, and Christopher Hamner. -
Internet Archive Open Libraries Proposal Macarthur Foundation 100&Change Internet Archive 100&Change
Internet Archive Open Libraries Proposal MacArthur Foundation 100&Change Internet Archive 100&Change Table of Contents A. OVERVIEW 5 Executive Summary 6 Location for Proposed Project 8 Detailed Project Plan 9 B. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 31 Stakeholder Identification 32 Inclusiveness 34 Persons With Disabilities 35 Stakeholder Engagement 36 Stakeholder Influence 38 C. SCALABILITY OF THE PROJECT 40 Planning for Scale 41 Scaling Technologies 41 Expanding Diversity 42 The Credibility of the Proposed Solution 43 Support for the Change 44 Advantage of the Proposed Solution 45 Ease of Transferring and Applying the Solution at Scale 47 Organizational Capacity to Implement at Scale 49 Financial Sustainability of the Proposed Solution 50 2 Internet Archive 100&Change D. MONITORING, EVALUATION, AND LEARNING 52 MONITORING 53 Results 53 Tracking 55 Milestones 57 EVALUATIONS 60 Changes for Beneficiaries 60 Data Sources 62 Methodology 63 Gender Analysis 65 LEARNING 66 Findings 66 Dissemination 68 E. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 70 Detailed Budget Narrative 71 Project Risk Management 73 F. FINANCIAL STRENGTH AND STABILITY 76 G. TECHNICAL 81 Technical Explanation 82 Conclusion 86 3 Internet Archive 100&Change H. ANCILLARY MATERIALS 87 Evidence of Engagement 88 Biographies of Key Staff 187 Bibliography 226 * Website: http://openlibraries.online 4 A. Overview Internet Archive 100&Change Executive Summary Looking for a trusted source of information? For millions of citizens there’s only one place to head: their local library—society’s great equalizer, where Wi-Fi, computers, and knowledge are offered for free, to anyone entering the door. Yet, due to distance, time, cost or disability, people in marginalized populations are too often denied access to physical books. -
Observing Web Archives the Case for an Ethnographic Study of Web Archiving
Observing Web Archives The Case for an Ethnographic Study of Web Archiving Jessica Ogden Susan Halford Leslie Carr University of Southampton University of Southampton University of Southampton Southampton, UK Southampton, UK Southampton, UK [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT the ephemerality of the Web demands intervention to preserve This paper makes the case for studying the work of web archivists, web content - in web archives - that reconstruct sites and the ‘web in an effort to explore the ways in which practitioners shape the experience’ for posterity [2]. However, there has been rather less preservation and maintenance of the archived Web in its various attention to the nature of this intervention: how it is done and why forms. An ethnographic approach is taken through the use of ob- this matters. This paper explores the critical decisions being made servation, interviews and documentary sources over the course now that will shape future generations’ ability to understand the of several weeks in collaboration with web archivists, engineers history of the Web. and managers at the Internet Archive - a private, non-profit digital library that has been archiving the Web since 1996. The concept 1.1 Web Archiving web archival labour of is proposed to encompass and highlight the Web archiving has roots in a wider digital preservation movement ways in which web archivists (as both networked human and non- which emerged in the 1980s-1990s, led by memory institutions to human agents) shape and maintain the preserved Web through develop strategies for addressing the rise of personal computing work that is often embedded in and obscured by the complex tech- and the impact of digital artefacts on their abilities to capture and nical arrangements of collection and access. -
The Future of Email Archives
The Future of Email Archives A Report from the Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives August 2018 COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES The Future of Email Archives A Report from the Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives August 2018 Sponsored by COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES ISBN 978-1-932326-59-8 CLIR Publication No. 175 Published by: Council on Library and Information Resources 1707 L Street NW, Suite 650 Washington, DC 20036 Website at https://www.clir.org Print copies are available for $20 each. Orders may be placed through CLIR’s website at https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub175/ Copyright © 2018 by Council on Library and Information Resources. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data: Names: Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives, author. | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, sponsoring body. | Digital Preservation Coalition, sponsoring body. Title: The future of email archives : a report from the Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives, August 2018 / sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Digital Preservation Coalition. Description: Washington, DC : Council on Library and Information Resources, [2018] | Series: CLIR publication ; no. 175 | “August 2018.” | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018027625 | ISBN 9781932326598 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Electronic mail messages. | Electronic records. | Digital preservation. Classification: LCC CD974.4 .T37 2018 | DDC 004.692--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018027625 Cover illustration: faithie/Shuttertock.com iii Contents Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................vi The Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives .............................. -
Downloaded from the Camera to the Computer
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO PERSONAL DIGITAL ARCHIVING EDITED BY BRIANNA H. MARSHALL AN IMPRINT OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CHICAGO 2018 alastore.ala.org BRIANNA MARSHALL is director of research services at the University of Cal- ifornia, Riverside. Previously, she was digital curation coordinator at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds master of library science and master of information science degrees from the Indiana University School of Infor- matics and Computing. © 2018 by the American Library Association Extensive effort has gone into ensuring the reliability of the information in this book; however, the publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. ISBNs 978-0-8389-1605-6 (paper) 978-0-8389-1683-4 (PDF) 978-0-8389-1682-7 (ePub) 978-0-8389-1684-1 (Kindle) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Marshall, Brianna H., editor. Title: The complete guide to personal digital archiving / edited by Brianna H. Marshall. Description: First edition. | Chicago : ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017031643 | ISBN 9780838916056 (softcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780838916827 (ePub) | ISBN 9780838916834 (PDF) | ISBN 9780838916841 (kindle) Subjects: LCSH: Personal archives—Management. | Electronic records—Management. | Archival materials—Digitization. | Archival materials—Digitization—Study and teaching. | Digital preservation. | Digital preservation—Study and teaching. | Data curation in libraries. | Data curation in libraries—United States—Case studies. Classification: LCC CD977 .C655 2018 | DDC 025.1/97—dc23 LC record available at https:// lccn.loc.gov/2017031643 Text design in the Chaparral Pro, Gotham, and Bell Gothic typefaces.