The following is a guest post by Abbie Grotke, Lead Information Technology Specialist on
the Web Archiving Team, Library of Congress.
Recently the
Library of Congress launched a significant amount of new Web Archive content on
the Library’s Web site,
as a part of a continued effort to integrate the Library’s Web Archives into
the rest of the loc.gov web presence.
This is our
first big release since we launched the first iteration of collections into
this new interface, back in June
2013. The earlier approach to presenting archived web sites turned out to
be a challenge to allow us to increase the amount of content available, so in a
“one step back, two steps forward” move, the interface has been simplified, and
should be more familiar to those working with Web Archives at other
institutions – item records point to archived web sites displaying in an
open-source version of the Wayback Machine. This simplification allowed the
Library to increase the number of sites available in this interface from just
under 1,000 to over 5,800. The most recent harvested sites now publicly
available were harvested in March-April 2012. The simplified approach should
also allow catching up with moving more current content into the online
collections.
There are
now 21 named collections available in the new interface;
some had been available in our old interface but are newly migrated; other content
is entirely new. With this launch, we are particularly excited about the
addition of the United
States Congressional Web Archives, which for the first time allows
researchers to access content collected since December 2002 up thru April 2012.
Each record covers those sessions where a particular member of Congress was
serving, such as for Barack Obama as
senator during two sessions, or the example of Kirsten E.
Gillibrand serving in the House and Senate, represented on one record
despite a URL change.
Other newly
available collections include the Burma/Myanmar
General Election 2010 Web Archive, Egypt
2008 Web Archive, Laotian
General Election 2011 Web Archive, Thai
General Election 2011 Web Archive, Vietnamese
General Election 2011 Web Archive and the Winter
Olympic Games 2002 Web Archive.
We still
have some work to do to move the U.S. Election Web Archives from our old interface, so for the time
being researchers interested in those collections will need to refer back to
the old site. Eventually we will be combining the separate Election collections
into one U.S. Election Archive that will allow better searchability and access,
and migrating them over (and then “turning off” the old interface).
We hope
researchers will enjoy access to these new web archive collections.
Source | http://www.loc.gov/
Regards
Pralhad
Jadhav
Khaitan
& Co
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