Accessing Web Archives: Integrating an Archive-It Collection into EBSCO Discovery Service

Beis, Christina; Harris, Kayla; Shreffler, Stephanie

doi:10.1080/19322909.2019.1625844

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“…In order to improve the business ability of archives staff, on the one hand, training in archives management knowledge should be strengthened to ensure that they can have a comprehensive understanding of archives management work, and on the other hand, the staff's understanding of various new technologies and network technologies should be strengthened, and these advanced technologies should be applied to archives management and services to improve the quality and efficiency of work, so as to enhance the modernisation of archives services in universities. The modernisation of university archives services [6] . By improving the modern archival service methods and skills, we can provide more professional and efficient archival services to the users of university archives and enhance the satisfaction of university archival services.…”

Section: Improving the Professionalism Of The Servicementioning

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A Study on Strategies to Enhance Satisfaction with Archival Services in Higher Education Institutions

2023

socsam

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The widespread use of Internet technology has placed new demands on university archival services. By analysing the satisfaction of archival services in universities, we understand users' needs and evaluation of archival services, and explore strategies to improve the satisfaction of archival services. Through the questionnaire survey and data analysis, it was found that the overall satisfaction of users with archival services is high, but there are still some factors that need to be adjusted and improved so as to enhance the satisfaction of archival users. Accordingly, we propose strategies to improve the scope of archiving in a timely manner, strictly control the quality of archiving, optimize the service platform, simplify the procedures for using archives, strengthen service awareness, enhance service enthusiasm and strengthen service quality.

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Section: Improving the Professionalism Of The Servicementioning

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A Study on Strategies to Enhance Satisfaction with Archival Services in Higher Education Institutions

2023

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“…And as Milligan (2019: 216–217) describes, SPN can be seen as part of a broader effort to ‘democratise’ access to the tools of web archiving that have historically been limited to large memory institutions with the capacity to build and store web archives at scale. SPN is regularly positioned by IA and others as a critical tool for citation, transparency and accountability online, enabling the preservation of social media, news media, government websites and other forms of web content by ‘citizen archivists’ for a myriad of future uses (Beis et al, 2021). However, despite these claims and prolific use, recent research has also observed that SPN is being used to (for example) capture and circulate health misinformation (Acker and Chaiet, 2020; Donovan, 2020) and terrorist propaganda online (Kelion, 2018; Littman, 2018).…”

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Know(ing) Infrastructure: The Wayback Machine as object and instrument of digital research

Ogden

Summers

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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From documenting human rights abuses to studying online advertising, web archives are increasingly positioned as critical resources for a broad range of scholarly Internet research agendas. In this article, we reflect on the motivations and methodological challenges of investigating the world’s largest web archive, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine (IAWM). Using a mixed methods approach, we report on a pilot project centred around documenting the inner workings of ‘Save Page Now’ (SPN) – an Internet Archive tool that allows users to initiate the creation and storage of ‘snapshots’ of web resources. By improving our understanding of SPN and its role in shaping the IAWM, this work examines how the public tool is being used to ‘save the Web’ and highlights the challenges of operationalising a study of the dynamic sociotechnical processes supporting this knowledge infrastructure. Inspired by existing Science and Technology Studies (STS) approaches, the paper charts our development of methodological interventions to support an interdisciplinary investigation of SPN, including: ethnographic methods, ‘experimental blackbox tactics’, data tracing, modelling and documentary research. We discuss the opportunities and limitations of our methodology when interfacing with issues associated with temporality, scale and visibility, as well as critically engage with our own positionality in the research process (in terms of expertise and access). We conclude with reflections on the implications of digital STS approaches for ‘knowing infrastructure’, where the use of these infrastructures is unavoidably intertwined with our ability to study the situated and material arrangements of their creation.

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Global trends in library web-archives

Redkina

2021

Naučnye i tehničeskie biblioteki

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The need for studying and promoting web-archiving for longterm information preservation and accessibility in future is substantiated. The existing technologies of web-archiving are specified and the problems related to the web dynamic character, errors, content complexity, are revealed. Successful experience in the world libraries’ web-archiving is discussed (selection, search, description technologies, access terms, etc.). The study findings demonstrate that web-archives are selected to supplement the libraries’ digital collections on hot topics, like COVID-19, or to meet the demands of specific user groups. For the purpose of cultural heritage preservation, the national libraries often focus of acquiring web-sites by the domains in the corresponding country. The university libraries focus on acquiring web-archives that meet research and educational demands of their users; and public libraries prefer the resources of interest to their local community. The findings may be used by world libraries for developing their digital collections.

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Accessing Web Archives: Integrating an Archive-It Collection into EBSCO Discovery Service

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

A Study on Strategies to Enhance Satisfaction with Archival Services in Higher Education Institutions

A Study on Strategies to Enhance Satisfaction with Archival Services in Higher Education Institutions

Know(ing) Infrastructure: The Wayback Machine as object and instrument of digital research

Global trends in library web-archives

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