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CiVers<p>📚 First publication from CiVers!</p><p>🤔 How can we reliably cite resources of web-based research databases in archaeology and the humanities?</p><p>💡 In our new article, we present the CiVers approach: creating versioned, citable web resources using Persistent Identifiers (PIDs).</p><p>🧠 Read the full open-access paper here:<br>🔗 <a href="https://publications.dainst.org/journals/FdAI/article/view/4936" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publications.dainst.org/journa</span><span class="invisible">ls/FdAI/article/view/4936</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/CiVers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CiVers</span></a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHumanities</span></a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/WebArchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebArchiving</span></a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/PID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PID</span></a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a></p>
Lucas Janin 🇨🇦🇫🇷<p>Yesterday, my website celebrated its 28th birthday!<br>Thanks to the web archive, it is nearly live!</p><p>Warning: Be cautious if you are going to the person's French side.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webarchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webarchiving</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lastcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lastcentury</span></a></p><p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19980214042306/http://www.lucas3d.com/index-in.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/1998021404</span><span class="invisible">2306/http://www.lucas3d.com/index-in.html</span></a></p>
CiVers<p>📢 Hello Mastodon! 👋<br>We’re CiVers Citation of Versioned Web Pages by Persistent Identifier</p><p>Web pages change. Links rot. Academic references break. We’re fixing that. 🛠️</p><p>💻 CiVers develops software and methodologies to make web content reliably citable with PIDs and versioning</p><p>🔗 DFG-funded <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wisskomm.social/@dfg_public" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dfg_public</span></a></span> project at the DAI Berlin <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bund.de/@dai_weltweit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dai_weltweit</span></a></span> with Heidelberg University Library <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/@uniheidelberg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>uniheidelberg</span></a></span>, GBV <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://openbiblio.social/@vzg_gbv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>vzg_gbv</span></a></span> and DataCite <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://openbiblio.social/@datacite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>datacite</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/WebArchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebArchiving</span></a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHumanities</span></a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/PID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PID</span></a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/DataCite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCite</span></a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/CiVers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CiVers</span></a></p>
raffaele<p>Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month<br><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/713125/google-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadline" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/news/713125/googl</span><span class="invisible">e-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadline</span></a><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_URL_Shortener" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_U</span><span class="invisible">RL_Shortener</span></a></p><p>I cannot say if it is a trusted source. Here, they say that 3.6 billion URLs have been shortened. <a href="https://dub.co/blog/googl-links" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dub.co/blog/googl-links</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>A single small server could have served as an HTTP redirector, for lifetime. <br>Nice job, Google! <br><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/webarchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webarchiving</span></a></p>
anelki<p>does anyone have suggestions for making an archive of a site like this where the links to the actual pages are all dynamically generated/rendered by JS and thus there is no easy way to just scrape the page links from the homepage html?</p><p><code>wget</code> can't do it and archiveweb.page can kinda do it, insofar as it can view/capture the page, but reloading the page just gives you a "loading" image, just like...</p><p>the original: <a href="https://greatmirror.com/united-states-oklahoma" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">greatmirror.com/united-states-</span><span class="invisible">oklahoma</span></a></p><p>and the archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250717005413/https://greatmirror.com/united-states-oklahoma" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2025071700</span><span class="invisible">5413/https://greatmirror.com/united-states-oklahoma</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/WebArchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebArchiving</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/DigiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres</span></a></p>
infoDOCKET<p>Plan To Decommission Hundreds Of .Gov <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Websites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Websites</span></a> Following GSA Review. (via Federal News Network) <a href="https://federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernization/2025/07/agencies-plan-to-decommission-hundreds-of-gov-websites-following-gsa-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">federalnewsnetwork.com/it-mode</span><span class="invisible">rnization/2025/07/agencies-plan-to-decommission-hundreds-of-gov-websites-following-gsa-review/</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/webarchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webarchiving</span></a></p>
Digital Repository of Ireland<p>We're celebrating Irish <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digitalHeritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalHeritage</span></a> during <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/HeritageWeek2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeritageWeek2025</span></a> with a talk about <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WebArchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebArchiving</span></a> with Dr. Sharon Healy. Find out how you can help preserve Irish websites!</p><p>➡️ Join us Tuesday, 19 August 2025 at 15:00<br>🏛️ In-person, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin</p><p><a href="https://dri.ie/events/heritage-week-2025-preserving-irish-online-cultural-heritage-through-web-archiving/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dri.ie/events/heritage-week-20</span><span class="invisible">25-preserving-irish-online-cultural-heritage-through-web-archiving/</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>British Library: RESAW 2025: Report from UK Web Archive Colleagues. “The RESAW (Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web) 2025 conference took place at the University of Siegen in Germany. It was organized by the Collaborative Research Centre 1187 ‘Media of Cooperation’ at the University of Siegen in cooperation with the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/24/resaw-2025-report-from-uk-web-archive-colleagues-british-library/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/24/resaw-2025-report-from-uk-web-archive-colleagues-british-library/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Library of Congress: Preserving a History of Digital Mapmaking: Inside the Geospatial Software and File Formats Documentation Web Archive. “In this interview, Tim St. Onge and Meagan Snow explain how web archiving is preserving documentation essential to understanding the evolution of modern cartography. They outline the motivations behind the Geospatial Software and File Formats […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/20/preserving-a-history-of-digital-mapmaking-inside-the-geospatial-software-and-file-formats-documentation-web-archive-library-of-congress/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/20/preserving-a-history-of-digital-mapmaking-inside-the-geospatial-software-and-file-formats-documentation-web-archive-library-of-congress/</a></p>
raffaele<p>Urx is a command-line tool designed for collecting URLs from OSINT archives, such as the Wayback Machine and Common Crawl<br><a href="https://github.com/hahwul/urx" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/hahwul/urx</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <br><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/webarchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webarchiving</span></a></p>

Alex Chan: Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way . “I’ve worked on web archives in a professional setting, but this one is strictly personal. This gives me more freedom to make different decisions and trade-offs. I can focus on the pages I care about, spend more time on quality control, and delete parts of a page I don’t need – without worrying about institutional […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/21/alex-chan-building-a-personal-archive-of-the-web-the-slow-way/

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British Library UK Web Archive Blog: IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2025: Report from UK Web Archive Colleagues. “This year’s IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference took place at the National Library of Norway in Oslo. Many UK Web Archive colleagues from Bodleian Libraries, the British Library, Cambridge University Library and National Library of Scotland attended the Web […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/iipc-web-archiving-conference-2025-report-from-uk-web-archive-colleagues-british-library-uk-web-archive-blog/

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We're hiring a full-time, fully-remote specialist to join our team supporting the Internet Archive's service partners, especially the Archive-It #webarchiving community. Please share widely! Email in bio for questions and recommendations ❤️ Here are the specs: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/de

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