It's been a long time in the making, but here's the new Library Data Lab at Southampton, giving dataset and API access to digitised collections. Currently in beta: all comments welcome. Intro from my colleague Matt: southampton.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page... Service datalab.library.soton.ac.uk

The State of Social Media #Archiving (A New Research Report From the @flickrfdn.bsky.social) www.flickr.org/a-new-resear... #socialmedia #archives #libraries

Hussam Hallak @hussamhallak.bsky.social of @webscidl.bsky.social describes using Google Sheets to do a bulk upload of URLs to the "Save Page Now" service of the Wayback Machine @waybackmachine.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...

For this blog post, I summarized @bitarchivist.net, @wilkinson.graphics, and @ilya.webrecorder.net's paper, “High Fidelity Web Archiving of News Sites and New Media with Browsertrix.” @webscidl.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...

In "Detecting and reconstructing trustworthy edit histories using web archives", I talk about different markers of edit history on webpages and how web archives can be used to verify or refute them. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026... @webscidl.bsky.social

Content Development Working Group wins the Celebrating Digital Innovation in Sporting Heritage Award 2025. The IIPC has been archiving websites related to the Olympics since 2010 and the Paralympics since 2012. @netpreserve.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4mmdpm63

I'll be presenting "A Vision for Trustworthy Web Archiving" as part of the Va Tech Center for Digital Research & Scholarship Distinguished Lecture Series. Friday, Jan 30, 2026 10am EST @webscidl.bsky.social It will be on Zoom & registration is free: calendar.lib.vt.edu/event/16230235

🤖 @coar-repositories.bsky.social has announced the new Dealing with AI Bots website that provides a wealth of information on bots & #crawlers impacting the services and operations of open #repositories, including mitigation strategies. See: coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

Travis Reid @treid803.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social summarizes Brenda Reyes Ayala's @brendareyesayala.bsky.social 2025 paper: "Towards a better QA process: Automatic detection of quality problems in archived websites using visual comparisons" ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/01/2026...

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

My site monitor just reported that the ACM Hypertext 2026 (@acmht.bsky.social) conference web site is live! I enjoyed attending HT'25 in Chicago & hope to submit a paper (due Mar. 27). I've no affiliation as an organizer but someone you know might also want to target this venue. ht.acm.org/ht2026/

It can be tricky to preserve social media. Here is a @flickrfdn.bsky.social report "The State of Social Media Archiving Tools:" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

At Vivaldi we continue to make choices that are different from our competitors. We have chosen to not integrate AI or crypto, but instead we integrate a wealth of other features, based on the wishes of our users. We are a European company with most of the team based in Norway and Iceland, a few […]

El Archivo de la Web Española trabaja desde el año 2009 como una gran cápsula del tiempo que preserva la historia de la sociedad española en la red. Gracias a Olga Suárez por este artículo. www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/reto...

Thrilled to see @ktmac.bsky.social and my paper on robots.txt and infrastructural consent published here!!

#webarchiving at The Library of Congress after 25 years - a look back at some accomplishments! blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...

Applications now open for Web Archiving School fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Apply here: www.archivingtheblackweb.org/apply/

Gracias al Consejo de Cooperación Bibliotecaria por este artículo que celebra los diez años del Archivo de la Web Española. www.ccbiblio.es/el-archivo-d...

Now presenting our #jcdl2025 paper exploring IPARO, a decentralized web-archival system on IPFS/IPNS that embeds version links into archived content. We evaluate linking policies and storage/lookup/replay tradeoffs. @ipfs.tech Slides: matkelly.com/presentation... Paper: matkelly.com/papers/2025_...

📣 We invite submissions for the 54th annual CAIS/ACSI conference, Information in Repair, exploring maintenance and repair as information work. 🗓 Proposals due January 31, 2026 🌐 Online conference | June 22–26, 2026 🏛 Hosted by the UBC School of Information 🔗 Full CFP: cais2026.ca

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

To study Twitter is to study archived Twitter. And if you're replaying archived pages, you need to be familiar with the different generations of UIs. Tarannum Zaki of @webscidl.bsky.social explores and classifies the different UIs. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

The proceedings & recordings of the 5 presentations at the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) 2025 Workshop from ACM Hypertext in September 2025 are now live! * Proceedings: ualberta.scholaris.ca/items/02da5c... * Recordings: wadlworkshop.github.io/2025/content... (@ Internet Archive & YT)

Our article "Liberation of LMS-siloed Instructional Data" was just released by the Code4Lib Journal! The work documents our efforts in extracting IMLS-funded bootcamp content from Blackboard for future reuse in library carpentries & for reference by students. 📝 journal.code4lib.org/articles/18462

please reach out with any tenure-track faculty opportunities in information, media, communication, or interdisciplinary computer science departments 🫡 learn more about me here: yuxiwu.com

‼️ ATTENTION ‼️ ⏰ Proposals for #iipcWAC26, "Sustainable #WebArchiving," in Brussels are due in 1 WEEK (15 OCT): netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP First-time submitters encouraged! Need inspiration? www.youtube.com/@iipc8855/fe... #WebArchives #WebArchiveWednesday #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities

In 1996, Brewster Kahle wrote "Preserving the Internet" for Scientific American. Nearly 30 years later, it’s striking how many of his predictions about digital preservation came true—and how many challenges remain. Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵

The Internet Archive @archive.org has an exciting slate of events lined up for their 29th anniversary, including hitting 1T archived pages! Check out: blog.archive.org/trillion/ #Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

📣This #WebArchiveWednesday, plan your proposal for #iipcWAC26, “Sustainable #WebArchiving,” at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium! netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP 🗓️ Deadline for proposals: OCT 15 #webarchives #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities

Los guardados de dominio en el Archivo de la Web Española forman parte fundamental de la estrategia de la #BNE para garantizar la conservación a largo plazo del patrimonio digital español y reflejar así la evolución de nuestra sociedad en el entorno web. www.bne.es/es/coleccion...

La Biblioteca Nacional de España lleva diez años guardando los dominios .es, que este año han superado los 2,8 millones, 700.000 más que en 2024 🌐 Lee la nota completa aquí ➡️ www.bne.es/es/noticias/...

Are you a web archive user, or would you like to know how to / more about using web archives? Book now for a half-day workshop this October to learn more about the UK Government Web Archive and shape our future offering for researchers: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-governm...

JCDL 2025 – we extended the Full/Short Paper Submission Deadline to September 12, 2025. 👉 2025.jcdl.org #JCDL2025 #DigitalLibraries

🚨 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! 🚨 The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) invites those in the digital preservation community to attend Digital Preservation 2025: Where We're At (Digital Preservation in Uncertain Times). This virtual event will take place […] [Original post on digipres.club]

Part two: Who Cares About All Those Old goo.gl Links Anyway? TL;DR: likely 4000+ goo.gl URLs indexed in Google Scholar will be "lost" under the new sunset criteria (i.e., access in late 2024). ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...

A report on IETF 123 in Madrid, including sessions on AI content preferences, bot authentication, and web measurement. commoncrawl.org/blog/ietf-12...

Web links and websites disappear all the time. But Google’s planned erasure of millions of links at once demonstrates the risks of putting our personal and collective digital histories in Big Tech’s hands. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... via @shiraovide.bsky.social

Common Crawl estimated 10M googl links impacted, which is probably a good estimate, but I was only able to find 1.3M archived in the Wayback Machine. More detailed analysis: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...

Reminder: this presentation is tomorrow (Wednesday), July 16 @ 11am EDT. @webscidl.bsky.social

Final call for the Web Archiving & Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop @ ACM Hypertext, submissions due July 14. Hybrid event! Extended workshops submissions invited for special issue International Journal on Digital Libraries. Please consider submitting! wadlworkshop.github.io/2025/?extended

Just released Mink 3.0! The Chrome extension integrates live & archived web. In v 3.0 we've: * updated to MV3 * integrated #MementoWeb aggregator fallback Give it a spin 🔗 & report any bugs🪲 #WebArchiveWednesday #webarchiving 🪲 github.com/machawk1/mink chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mink-...

In this blog post, I summarized Goel et al.’s "Jawa: Web Archival in the Era of JavaScript". They identified sources of non-determinism that cause replay problems and created a crawler that removes non-deterministic code. #WebArchiveWednesday @webscidl.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/06/2025...

Another great opportunity to join us at the University of Glasgow, as we invest and expand our digital capacity in #digitallibraries, #digitalarchives, #digitalhumanities and #digitalcollections! This particular post is Digital Research Collections Coordinator, overseeing the management and […]

Our proposal for the Web Archiving & Digital Libraries (WADL) Workshop has been accepted to ACM Hypertext 2025! (@acmht.bsky.social) Please consider submitting a paper, due July 6. More info @ wadlworkshop.github.io/2025/ Please also RT for those potentially interested #webarchiving

📢 Nominations for the 1st crawl for the #iipcCDG WWII 80th Anniversary Commemoration collection close on June 2: For more information and a link to the nomination form, check out this blog post by the collection's lead curator: netpreserveblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/c... #WebArchiveWednesday

This semester, all of my federal grants were terminated. In a new blog post, I write about the importance of federal funding for academic research and the impact of these cuts. @WebSciDL #NEH #IMLS #NSF ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/05/2025...

go follow GC on youtube. he makes really thoughtful analysis of the yakuza/like a dragon series and makes some incredible retrospectives on dragon quest. link: www.youtube.com/@GCVazquez