https://qanda.digipres.org/tag/selection Powered by Question2Answer https://qanda.digipres.org/297/documenting-scope-and-content-for-web-archives What key information should be included in a scope and content statement for a web archive collection? It would be great of folks could point to 1) good examples of discription of scope and content and 2) any relevant standards. https://qanda.digipres.org/297/documenting-scope-and-content-for-web-archives Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:18:20 +0000 https://qanda.digipres.org/279/archives-complement-acquisition-personal-collection-archiving At this point, authors, scientists, politicains and others who's papers are aquired by archives, share photos on flickr, write blogs, have personal websites, etc. That is, asside from their papers stored and organized in their physical or digital files, or their corraspondance in their email accounts, and other sets of private unpublished materials they also have a range of ephemerial likely at risk materials that are currently avalible on the public web. In what situations does it make sense for an archives to use something like Archive-It to aquire these sites? As a plus, it would be great to have actual examples of cases where archives have decided it made sense to complement the aquisition of a personal papers collection with web archiving. https://qanda.digipres.org/279/archives-complement-acquisition-personal-collection-archiving Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:26:01 +0000 https://qanda.digipres.org/255/makes-defined-selection-criteria-archive-archive-collection Tools like Archive-It make it relaitvly easy to archive the web. However, given how heterogeneous the web and web content is it becomes a challenge to pin down and define what web content matters to a particular organization and how to identify that content's place in seed URLs. To this end, I am curious to hear what people think make for the core requirements for selection criteria for an Archive-It collection. Idealy, answers here could point to some Archive-It collections that clearly follow through on well defined selection criteria. https://qanda.digipres.org/255/makes-defined-selection-criteria-archive-archive-collection Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:08:31 +0000