[Air-L] Government website harvesting

Thu Dec 15 12:42:39 PST 2016

Hi Joy, 
I'm working on the End of Term government web archive which you've seen mentioned in the news, and my colleague Jefferson wrote a nice writeup today on the Internet Archive blog: https://blog.archive.org/2016/12/15/preserving-u-s-government-websites-and-data-as-the-obama-term-ends/. Our project team has been working together for years, you can see our 2008 and 2012 archives here: http://eotarchive.cdlib.org/ . 

Some of the projects in the recent news are tangentially related to ours but being organized by others and without our coordination, with nominations are being contributed to our effort via this form: http://digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/eth2016/ . More about how to contribute appears here: http://freegovinfo.info/node/11477

Some preservation efforts that we're heard about are separate entirely, and we aren't coordinating with everyone but focused on our specific activity. 

We can answer questions anyone has about our archive - email EOT-info at archive.org to reach me and other members of the team who can help respond. 

Thanks for the interest!
Abbie 

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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:43:51 +0000
From: Joy McNally <JMcNally at ucsusa.org>
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Thanks, Jess! I didn't realize that one was quite as collaborative as it was. I'll dig a little deeper.

Joy McNally Brandow
Research Support Coordinator
Union of Concerned Scientists | Cambridge MA
T: +1 617 301-8048 | E: jmcnally at ucsusua.org

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From: Ogden J.R. [mailto:Jessica.Ogden at soton.ac.uk] 
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There’s the End of Term 2016 web archive that is being coordinated by the Internet Archive, Library of Congress, University of North Texas and others:

https://github.com/end-of-term/eot2016<http://eotarchive.cdlib.org/2016.html>

There’s other links there to nomination tool hosted at UNT, background information and their listserv.

Hope that helps,
Jess

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On 13 December 2016 at 21:23:50, Joy McNally (jmcnally at ucsusa.org<mailto:jmcnally at ucsusa.org>) wrote:

Thanks, Kalev. I had read that as a solicitation around the results and reaction, not necessarily government pages that will be updated after the transition. I’ll reach out to the Internet Archive for clarification.

Thanks!

Joy McNally Brandow
Research Support Coordinator
Union of Concerned Scientists | Cambridge MA
T: +1 617 301-8048 | E: jmcnally at ucsusua.org<mailto:jmcnally at ucsusua.org>

From: kalev leetaru [mailto:kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 4:18 PM
To: Joy McNally
Cc: Air-L at listserv.aoir.org
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Joy, the good folks over at the Internet Archive are actually running a special collection push along these very lines:

http://blog.archive.org/2016/11/11/contribute-to-the-2016-u-s-presidential-election-web-archive/

Kalev

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Joy McNally <JMcNally at ucsusa.org<mailto:JMcNally at ucsusa.org>> wrote:
I was wondering if someone has created a running list of who is harvesting government websites ahead of the US government transition next month. There have been a few articles published in the past couple of days focusing on individual efforts, but it seems a lot of groups might be overlapping what they are archiving.

Here's a good article discussing a few of the efforts:

Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/13/scientists-are-frantically-copying-u-s-climate-data-fearing-it-might-vanish-under-trump/

Thanks for any leads! (And apologies if it's off-topic)

Joy McNally Brandow
Research Support Coordinator
Union of Concerned Scientists | Cambridge MA
T: +1 617 301-8048<tel:%2B1%20617%20301-8048> | E: jmcnally at ucsusua.org<mailto:jmcnally at ucsusua.org><mailto:jmcnally at ucsusua.org<mailto:jmcnally at ucsusua.org>>

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