National Library of Finland: Principles for Finnish Web Archive content selection published. “The National Library of Finland is responsible for the diverse and representative preservation of online material. To make this work more transparent, we produced a document entitled Content selection for the Finnish Web Archive, outlining the principles for content selection in thematic and continuous […]

The web never stands still 🌐 ... and neither do the challenges of preserving it.

The #DPC is preparing for the return of its Web Archiving Special Interest Group (WA-SIG), bringing DPC Members together in a welcoming and transparent space where Members can exchange ideas, surface challenges, and learn from one another’s approaches.

The renewed WA-SIG gets together on 7 July.

Read more & join us 😊: https://www.dpconline.org/news/dpc-prepares-return-of-web-archiving-special-interest-group

#DigitalPreservation #Coalition #DPC #WebArchiving #Archives

Tom’s Hardware: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots. “The internet is getting harder to archive because the AI boom has caused a storage crisis, with both NAND and mechanical […]

Related to my WAF header question the other day, AI crawling is also ruining RSS:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/1t0jqis/many_sites_are_blocking_request_to_rss_links/

😔

#WebArchiving #WebCrawling #WebAPI #HTTPasAPI #API #RSS #ATOM #FederatedNews

Anyone dealing with WAF challenges in their web scrapers?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/APIReference/API_ChallengeAction.html

#WebArchives #digipres #WebArchiving

The poster “The CiVers-Project: Bridging research texts and fine-grained research data”, presented at #CAA2026 in Vienna, is now available #openaccess.

👉 Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.34780/cifa5ycy

#CiVers #DigitalHumanities
#ResearchData #OpenScience #opensource #research #digitalpreservation #webarchiving

We presented #CiVers at #CAA2026 in Vienna (Mar 31–Apr 4) with a poster! 🎉
🔍 By combining #WebArchiving change detection, and #metadata extraction, CiVers enables reliable citation of versioned web pages using persistent identifiers (PIDs).
🥅 Our goal: make web-based #research resources citable, traceable, and reproducible.
Let’s connect! 🤲

Photo Credits: Lisa Steinmann.

Ex-OB Dieter Reiters Instagram-Account ist wieder da. Warum? Damit das Stadtarchiv archivieren kann.

Die @SZ_de schreibt: "Die sozialen Medien seien für Politiker „mittlerweile eine der bevorzugten Möglichkeiten, mit der Bevölkerung zu kommunizieren“, sagte der Leiter des Stadtarchivs, Daniel Baumann, der SZ. Wenn eines Tages die Geschichte von Reiters Amtszeit aufgearbeitet werde, (...) stelle ein solcher Account dafür einen wichtigen Baustein dar."

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-dieter-reiter-instagram-raetsel-spende-fc-bayern-li.3467851

#webarchiving

RE: https://digipres.club/@webrecorder/116398937090635178

#tools #DigitalHumanities #WebArchiving

That humbling moment when you're trying to access legacy data and find out the service was turned off November last year... did I know? Should I have known? I can't find references in my emails, and clearly I hadn't opened the app in a while... I guess c'est la vie...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket

#Pocket #ObsoleteWeb #WebArchiving #digipres