{"id":52,"date":"2024-05-16T19:32:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/born-digital\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:49:08","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/born-digital\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction\u00a0to Web Archiving At the University Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mission<\/span><\/h2>\n

To address the need to capture Web-based content relevant to a variety of University of\u00a0<\/span>Illinois constituencies \u2013 including supporting administrative, teaching, and research communities \u2013 the Library has subscribed to the Internet Archive supported Archive-It service. This service allows university researchers, archivists, and librarians to preserve online records of historical importance and research interest in an online environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Audience\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

These policies and guidelines are intended to assist collection editors who have the authority to initiate Web crawls and manage harvested content at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The documentation reflects Archive-It\u2019s documentation and will be updated when Archive-It updates. If you want to see the most up to date information please refer to <\/span>Archive-It’s documentation<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Roles and Responsibilities<\/span><\/h3>\n

Institutional Administrator Responsibilities:<\/span><\/h4>\n

The Institutional Administrator is the contact point from the subscribing institution to Archive-It. The Library’s Institutional Administrator is Tracy Popp (tpopp2@illinois.edu), Digital Preservation Coordinator. Responsibilities include:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • Institutional point of contact for Archive-It<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Contacting the Internet Archive regarding technical and service support questions<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Creating web archives collections<\/span><\/li>\n
  • User management including:<\/span>\n
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    • Creating Collection Editor accounts<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Monitoring local web archiving activities and data budget<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Creating and maintaining user training materials<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Collection Editor Responsibilities<\/span><\/h4>\n

      Each collection created requires at least one Collection Editor to manage the curatorial activity within a web archives collection. The majority of content selection and management responsibilities are managed by this person or persons. A primary Collection Editor is established at the time the project is created and is generally the author of an approved project proposal. Collection Editors responsibilities include:<\/span><\/p>\n

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      • Identifying and proposing web archiving projects which meet collection development guidelines<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Serving as point of contact for the specified web archives project<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Maintaining high-quality public web archives demonstrated through activities such as quality assurance monitoring and metadata creation<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Commitment to following web archiving guidelines including established naming conventions and institutional branding<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Ensuring that web captures are efficiently using storage space and monitoring allocated collection storage budget<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Contacting content rights holders and site web masters as necessary<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Notifying Institutional Administrator if primary Collection Editor role is handed off to another Library employee<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Suggesting Archive-It feature improvements based on service use and web archives user feedback<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Mission To address the need to capture Web-based content relevant to a variety of University of\u00a0Illinois constituencies \u2013 including supporting administrative, teaching, and research communities \u2013 the Library has subscribed to the Internet Archive supported Archive-It service. This service allows university researchers, archivists, and librarians to preserve online records of historical importance and research interest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/born-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/born-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/born-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/born-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/born-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/born-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/born-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/born-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}