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Web Archiving at Carnegie Hall

April 22, 2019

Lisa Barrier + Kathryn Gronsbell

Carnegie Hall Archives

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How We Got Started

  • “Emergency” - www.carnegiehall.org redesign
    • Had to transition off old CMS, ASAP�
  • Wget crawl by CH web development team
    • But! Compatibility issues w/older Wget version + Webrecorder Player�
  • Started conversation about ‘what to keep’

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Collaboration with Webrecorder

“Carnegie Hall is a non-profit, and we recently re-launched our website after almost a decade. Our legacy website is currently being maintained (temporarily) on internal servers. The Archives is interested in strategies and options for crawling and accessioning the legacy website as an object for research, possibly as WARC file(s).”

- Kathryn’s email to Webrecorder team in early 2018

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Collaboration with Webrecorder

  • Summer 2018 - established Partnership between Carnegie Hall + Webrecorder�
  • Goals:
    • Support CH’s growing web archiving program
    • Improve Webrecorder to better meet needs of savvy but mostly non-technical users
    • If there is mutual interest, seek funding together

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Experience - Working With Webrecorder

  • Talked with Anna, researched, gathered information
  • Practiced capturing pages from [old] CH website in Webrecorder
    • Legacy festival sites
    • Education sites:
      • Resource and online community for teaching artists, students, staff to share content
      • Games, listening guides with Flash elements
    • and...

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2013-2018 (on Webrecorder)

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2018-Present (on carnegiehall.org)

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Experience - Working Group

  • Created initial work plan and purpose statement drafts (5 people)
  • Formed internal working group (~12 people)
    • Introductions to web archiving
    • Recapped initial experiences with captures
    • Shared work plan, purpose statement for review
    • Identified “pilot” target site for first comprehensive capture
    • Working to establish practices for:
      • Prioritization and Selection
      • Capture and Description
      • Management and Access

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Building Project Documentation

  • Internal Working Group Team site
    • Collaborative notes
    • Inventory of all CH websites (active and inactive)
    • List of links to web archiving resources, tools for individual use�
  • GitHub repo -> carnegiehall.github.io/webarchiving
    • Overview, purpose statement, work plan shared as in progress
    • Publicly-accessible Webrecorder captures (PHS)

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THANKS!

Keep in touch...

Lisa: lbarrier@carnegiehall.org

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Kathryn: kgronsbell@carnegiehall.org

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