Jaime McCurry NDSR, Folger Shakespeare Library Maureen McCormick Harlow NDSR, National Library of Medicine As 2013-2014 National Digital Stewardship Residents, we worked on separate web archiving projects at the National Library of Medicine and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Both projects concluded in the creation of new collections. We were able to experience all aspects of the process of creating a new collection and each project environment allowed us to further focus our attention on particular aspects of the web collecting cycle. For Maureen, it was choosing a theme that was just the right fit for NLM’s unique collections. For Jaime, it was performing outreach services to inform and collaborate with the Folger staff and user audience to generate interest in and advocate for web collecting activities. Web Archiving in Practice CHOOSING A THEME PICKING PERSPECTIVES COLLECTION OUTREACH COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT RAISING AWARENESS @mcmharlow @jaime_ann #NDSR #WEBARCHIVING Theme should augment existing collections and goals, filling known collecting gaps, if possible. Maureen’s theme: Autism and Alzheimer’s on the Web. Web collections are great for the first-person perspective! Choose perspectives that would be difficult to collect in the analog world. For this, a mix of first- and third-person resources were chosen: • Current Understanding • Patient Perspective • Caregiver Perspective • Research • Causes • Treatment • Prevention (for Alzheimer’s only) RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS All blog owners were contacted before content was collected. Each owner agreed to have his/her blog included in the collection. This inspired its own blog content, as bloggers blogged about being collected by NLM. COLLECTIONS Disorders of the Developing and Aging Brain: Autism and Alzheimer’s on the Web NLM FSL William Shakespeare’s 450th Birthday: Celebrations and Commentary Discuss new collections with institutional stakeholders. Obtain feedback and adjust/enhance as necessary. Announce new initiatives on institutional social media and web platforms and external platforms where available. Educate your colleagues and your user audience on web archiving: what it is, how it’s done, why it is relevant to the institution and to their interests. Utilize institutional web and blog platforms. Conduct internal presentations and present externally when possible at related events, meetups, and conferences. Invite comments and suggestions for growth from your colleagues and your user audience through the utilization of online forms and social media contact points. Create a contact email for the web archives administrator. Open up a forum for discussion in the comments section of relevant blog posts. Discuss the topic on social media and at professional events. NLM FSL A working-draft permissions policy was created in which web archives administrators agreed to remove harvested web content on a case-by-case basis upon request by site owner(s).

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Page 1: Web Archiving in Practice | Digital Preservation 2014

Jaime McCurry NDSR, Folger Shakespeare Library

Maureen McCormick Harlow NDSR, National Library of Medicine

As 2013-2014 National Digital Stewardship Residents, we worked on separate web archiving projects at the National Library of Medicine and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Both projects concluded in the creation of new collections. We were able to experience all aspects of the process of creating a new collection and each project environment allowed us to further focus our attention on

particular aspects of the web collecting cycle. For Maureen, it was choosing a theme that was just the right fit for NLM’s unique collections. For Jaime, it was performing outreach services to inform and collaborate with the Folger staff and user audience to generate interest in and advocate for web collecting activities.

Web Archiving in Practice

CHOOSING A THEME

PICKING PERSPECTIVES

COLLECTION OUTREACH

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

RAISING AWARENESS

@mcmharlow @jaime_ann

#NDSR#WEBARCHIVING

Theme should augment existing collections and goals, filling known collecting gaps, if possible. Maureen’s theme: Autism and Alzheimer’s on the Web.

Web collections are great for the first-person perspective! Choose perspectives that would be difficult to collect in the analog world.

For this, a mix of first- and third-person resources were chosen:

• Current Understanding • Patient Perspective

• Caregiver Perspective • Research• Causes

• Treatment • Prevention (for Alzheimer’s only)

RIGHTS & PERMISSIONSAll blog owners were contacted before content was collected. Each owner agreed to have his/her blog included in the collection. This inspired its own blog content, as bloggers blogged about being collected by NLM.

COLLECTIONS

Disorders of the Developing and Aging Brain:

Autism and Alzheimer’s on the Web

NLM FSLWilliam Shakespeare’s

450th Birthday: Celebrations and

Commentary

Discuss new collections with institutional stakeholders. Obtain feedback and adjust/enhance as necessary. Announce new initiatives on institutional social media and web platforms and external platforms where available.

Educate your colleagues and your user audience on web archiving: what it is, how it’s done, why it is relevant to the institution and to their interests. Utilize institutional web and blog platforms. Conduct internal presentations and present externally when possible at related events, meetups, and conferences.

Invite comments and suggestions for growth from your colleagues and your user audience through the utilization of online forms and social media contact points. Create a contact email for the web archives administrator. Open up a forum for discussion in the comments section of relevant blog posts. Discuss the topic on social media and at professional events.

NLM

FSL

A working-draft permissions policy was created in which web archives administrators agreed to remove harvested web content on a case-by-case basis upon request by site owner(s).