Read
- Jinfang Niu “An Overview of Web Archiving“
- Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, “Collecting History Online” chapter in Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (note: the entire chapter is assigned, not just the page appearing at this link)
- Darnton, The National Digital Public Library Is Launched!
Blog
- Jessica Knapp, “Is Seeing Believing? An assessment of photographs in history” (readings: Ian Grosvenor, “From the ‘Eye of History’ to ‘a Second Gaze’: The Visual Archive and the Marginalized in the History of Education“; Jennifer Maloney, “In Focus: City’s Humans” Brandon Stanton, “Humans of New York.”)
- Laura Walter, Where there is Wifi there can be Sir Francis Drake’s Voyages of the West Indies (readings: Sarah Werner, “Where Material Culture meets Digital Humanities” and Kahle Brewster “Why Preserve Books“)
- Recommended: Association of Research Libraries, “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries“
Review:
- Internet Archives
- Wayback Machine
- Library of Congress Web Archives
- Httrack
- Archive-It
- Voyeur Tools
- Fire Insurance Plans at the UWO Map Library