We’re less than two weeks away from a very special event, which we’ve collaborated with our SAASC friends to help organize. Join us on May 1 for The End of Term Web Archive: Collecting & Preserving the .gov Information Sphere.
From 6:30-7:00pm (Pacific), San José State University’s student chapters of the Special Libraries Association and the Society of American Archivists will be hosting a virtual social (half) hour. Join us and get to know your classmates! This is a great time to ask questions, network, and even commiserate. The program will be from 7:00-8:00pm.
In the fall of 2016, a group of institutions – Internet Archive, Library of Congress, CA Digital Library, and libraries from the University of North Texas, Stanford University, and George Washington University – organized to preserve a snapshot of the federal government website. This is the third time this End of Term (EOT) group has organized with the goals of identifying, harvesting, preserving, and providing access to a snapshot of the federal government web presence. They do this for two important reasons. The first is that the transition of elected officials in the federal government’s executive branch prompts a reset of sites like www.WhiteHouse.gov, so it’s critical to document the changes. The EOT group’s work also provides a broad snapshot of the federal domain once every four years; it’s replicated among a number of organizations for long-term preservation.
James Jacobs from Stanford University Libraries and Jefferson Bailey from the Internet Archive will discuss the project’s methods for identifying and selecting in-scope content, strategies for capturing web content, and access models for collected content.
For more details, check our upcoming events page.
Join us via Blackboard Collaborate by clicking on the name of the event at the beginning of this post, or by using this link: https://sas.elluminate.com/d.j
Individuals requiring real-time captioning or other accommodations should contact Dr. Sue Alman as soon as possible.
