{"id":46,"date":"2024-05-16T19:30:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/born-digital\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:18:38","slug":"web-archives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/born-digital\/web-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is Web Archiving?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the Society of American Archivists, web archiving is \u201cthe process of collecting, preserving and providing, enduring access to web content.\u201d<br \/>\nSince the 1990s, <em>both institutions and individuals started to shift information that would have been disseminated physically to disseminating it online<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What does that mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Think about the ways in which students, staff, and faculty interact with information at the University of Illinois. Club event dates, meeting minutes, course syllabi- before the Internet, this information would be given to them on paper, through newsletters, or by word of mouth.<br \/>\nThat information now not only lives on computers, but was created on computers. That&#8217;s what it means for content to be born-digital. Once that information has been created on a computer or smartphone, it is:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>uploaded to a social media page such as Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, or Bluesky,<\/li>\n<li>placed on a conventional website such as a blog,<\/li>\n<li>sent as an email,<\/li>\n<li>or sent on a messaging platform such as Discord, Telegram, GroupMe, or Signal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What happens when that organization changes leadership? When they run out of site or cloud storage? Though much of the information disseminated on websites is only temporarily needed by the campus organizations that create it, it is crucially important to many other groups, including researchers and historians studying campus life. If it is not archived, it is highly likely to be lost without warning, forever.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The average website only lasts for 2 years and 7 months, and that does not consider changes that happen to the site (Beis, 2021). The ephemerality of websites- their impermanent and ever-changing nature- is why they need to be actively preserved. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Web archives are, and will continue to be, vital for anyone interested in studying any events, culture, or people from the 1990s to the current year and beyond.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/organizations\/997\">Access Web Archives<\/a>:<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Web Archives Collections\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>University Archives<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/6086\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Web Archives<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/13880\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Covid 19 Response at the University of Illinois<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/17860\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Massemails<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/8377\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University of Illinois Faculty Websites<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/7708\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Illinois News Bureau\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/21362\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FemTechNet Web Archives<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/16877\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fair Warning Web Archives<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Illinois History and Lincoln Collections\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/19468\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Central Illinois Jewish Community Web Archives\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/16858\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">State of Illinois COVID-19 Response\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/16548\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abraham Lincoln Statue Controversies Web Archive<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>International Area Studies\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/6074\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">World Sustainable Development Web Archive (International and Area Studies Library-University of Illinois)\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/14004\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Global Civil Society Organization Responses to COVID-19<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/20650\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arms Control and International Security Papers<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/14190\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Borderlands Web Archives\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>ALA Archives\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/6087\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Library Association&#8217;s Web Archive (University Archives-University of Illinois)\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Scholarly Communication &amp; Publishing\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/9592\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Illinois 150<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/19213\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Illinois Open Publishing Network<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>\u00a0Student Life and Culture\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/18133\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Fraternity or Sorority Records<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-it.org\/collections\/20242\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alpha Tau Omega Web Archive (Student Live &amp; Culture Archives-University of Illinois)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Web Archiving? 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