Here’s the weekly web archiving roundup for February 26, 2014–these news items go up each Wednesday, and will be pertinent to anyone with an interest in web archiving.  Although news items are compiled by the Web Archiving Roundtable steering committee and Best Practices/Toolbox committee members, don’t be shy about posting additional items of interest to the [webarchiving] discussion list!

• “Preserving the Internet’s Embarassing Past“, by Spencer Longo: another article on “One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age”. http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/preserving-the-internets-embarrassing-past

• “Borges and Twitter“, Rebecca Reynolds: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive/2014/02/jorge-luis-borges-and-twitter.html

• “Duracloud announces new Archive-It integration feature“: http://blog.archive-it.org/2014/02/19/duracloud-announces-new-archive-it-integration-feature/

• “The 8 Most Popular Document Formats on the Web“, Duff Johnson: PDFs remain by far the most popular document format on the web.  http://duff-johnson.com/2014/02/17/the-8-most-popular-document-formats-on-the-web/

• “Tessella reports: Preservica simplifies active preservation for DSpace repositories“, Christina Tealdi: Tessella has updated the workflow for its Preservica service to make it easier to ingest digital content from DSpace.  http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb11614657.htm

• “More Podcast, Less Process Episode 7: humans.txt.mp3 — The Web Archivists Are Present“, with Jefferson Bailey and Joshua Ranger: A discussion of the complexities of web archiving with guests Alex Thurman and Lily Pregill.  http://keepingcollections.org/more-podcast-less-process/

Here’s the weekly web archiving roundup for February 12, 2014–these news items go up each Wednesday, and will be pertinent to anyone with an interest in web archiving.  Although news items are compiled by the Web Archiving Roundtable steering committee and Best Practices/Toolbox committee members, don’t be shy about posting additional items of interest to the [webarchiving] discussion list!

• “E-Ark gets £6 million to save digital data“, by Rene Millman: The E-ARK Project has been awarded a large grant, and will use the funds to examine best practices and create a pilot for archival services, including big data: http://www.itpro.co.uk/storage/21528/e-ark-gets-6-million-to-save-digital-data

• “Snowden Used Low-Cost Tool to Best N.S.A.“, by David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt: Apparently Edward Snowden used a web crawler to collect classified material from the NSA: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/us/snowden-used-low-cost-tool-to-best-nsa.html?hp&_r=1

• “‘Kayakcameraman’ Paul Jurak to have morning paddles stored at National Library“, by Sally Pryor: The website of Paul Jurak, kayakcameraman.com, has been selected by the National library of Australia for preservation.  http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/kayakcameraman-paul-jurak-to-have-morning-paddles-stored-at-national-library-20140205-3223b.html

• “House panel OKs expanded legislative webcasts“: The New Mexico Legislature has approved proposals related to webcasting their proceedings.  http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NM_XGR_LEGISLATURE_WEBCASTS_NMOL-?SITE=NMALJ&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

• “Erado Releases Web Archiving Program“, by Jennifer Morrell: Electronic Communications Compliance Company Erado has released a web archiving platform. It seems to be aimed at companies in highly regulated industries.  http://www.insurancenetworking.com/news/erado-releases-web-archiving-program-33836-1.html

Here’s the weekly web archiving roundup for February 5, 2014!  These news items will be posted each Wednesday, and will be pertinent to anyone with an interest in web archiving, whether it’s something you do every day or just something you find intriguing.

• BBC iWonder: Introducing Interactive Guides, by Andrew Pipes: Announcement that the BBC has released a new platform for viewing interactive guides on a wide range of topics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/Introducing-BBC-iWonder-World-War-One-Interactive-Guides

• US Department of Labor Web Archive, by Bill LeFurgy (twitter): http://www.dol.gov/oasam/wirtzlaborlibrary/digital/digital-archive.htm?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_campaign=hootsuite

• “How collaboration can save [more of] the web,” by Anna Perricci, slides from Jan 2014 MetroNYC presentation: http://mnylc.org/metrocon14/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Perricci.pdf

• “Digitizing Artists’ and Scholars’ Archives” at the Archives of American Art, CRSA Forum: http://crsaforum.org/2014/01/28/events-digitizing-archives/

• “Reading old news in the web archive, distantly,” by Peter Webster:  http://peterwebster.me/2014/01/28/distant-reading-the-webarchive/

• “A look at website lifespans,” by Keith Darnay: “Websites have an average lifespan of between 4 and 12 years. Individual web pages might last as little as 2 to 3 months.”  http://bismarcktribune.com/news/columnists/keith-darnay/a-look-at-website-lifespans/article_1d879ae6-851a-11e3-8bd1-0019bb2963f4.html