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Web Archiving for Music History:
The Archive of Contemporary Composers’ Websites at New York
University
Kent Underwood & Robin Preiss
Music Library Association Denver 2015
Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata: Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig, BWV 26 (1724)
Movement I
Motet, Sei nun wieder zufrieden by Johann Bach (1604-1673)from the Altbachisches Archiv (“Old Bach Archive”)
Johann Sebastian Bach, curator
Web Archiving
Live Website
Archival Snapshot(“Crawl”)
Digital Repository
Types of Websites Important to Music History
● Composers
● Performing Artists & Ensembles
● Concert Organizations & Venues
● Publishers & Record Companies
● Criticism & Reception (Blogs, Social
Media)
How long does a webpage last?
Average lifespan:
44-75 days! ** Estimate by the Internet Archive
Johann Sebastian BachAch wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig, BWV 26
(Movement IV)
N.L. Peschier: Vanitas Still Life, 1660 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
Archive of Contemporary Composers’ Websites at NYU
Universe of Composers’ Websites
NYUArchive
Borrow Direct
Archive
Internet Archive’s Curatorial Tools
Wayback Machine (passive tool)
Archive-It (active tool, enabling
curation):
Choice of sites
Frequency, duration, and amount of data in
each crawl
Inclusion/Exclusion of subdomains
Inclusion/Exclusion of embedded files
Inclusion/Exclusion of outside links
Do you wish your site to be included in the archive?
(questionnaires sent out)
YES51%
UNDECIDED2%
NO RESPONSE47%
Do you wish your site to be included in the archive? (responses received)
YES96%
UNDECIDED4%
Are you administering and updating your site yourself?
YES83%
NO17%
Are you taking measures of your own to preserve your site?
YES31%
NO69%
How often do you ADD significant amounts of new material?
Weekly (7%) Monthly (34%) Quarterly (33%) Semiannual (11%) Annual (7%) Other (8%)0
10
20
30
40
50
60
How often do you DELETE significant amounts of material?
Weekly (1%) Monthly (7%) Quarterly (13%) Semiannual (12%) Annual (25%) Never (28%) Other 14%)0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
Local Landing Page
Web Sphere
Johann Sebastian BachAch wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig (Conclusion)
Hymn to Nikkal (Ugarit, Mesopotamia, ca. 1400 B.C.E.)
The earliest intact music manuscript yet discovered
THANK YOU
Kent Underwood
Robin Preiss
