GovInfo Day(s) Spring 2025 brought together librarians, archivists & digital stewards to champion long-term access to government info. Hosted by Internet Archive Canada, SFU & UBC. Inspiring sessions on digital preservation & public access. 🔗 internetarchivecanada.org/2025/05/07/r... CC @archive.org

@eotarchive.org is in the middle of harvesting the ERIC database. We’ve currently collected 24000 PDF files (going on 500,000+... should be done later today). There’s a full-text keyword collection search at web.archive.org where you can choose to search Eric.ed.gov collection. @archive.org FTW!

SF Chronicle: “Trump’s War on Information Meets a Dedicated Adversary: University #Librarians” www.infodocket.com/2025/05/02/s... #libraries #archives @archive.org @eotarchive.org @envirodgi.bsky.social @datarescueproject.org

We have a busy day today full of rescue and talking. The RDAP leadership is killing it with a data rescue event. And later, we will be presenting with @pegiproject.bsky.social and @eotarchive.org with some awesome Canadians at GovInfo Day! www.eventbrite.com/e/govinfo-da...

BBC Report: "Inside The Desperate Rush to Save Decades of Us Scientific #Data From Deletion" www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... #webarchives #dataresecue @eotarchive.org @datarescueproject.org @archive.org

University of North Texas is now accepting seed nominations for post-EOT crawls: digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/G... Crawls from this seed list will not be a part of the #EOT2024 #EOTArchive

We are wrapping up seed list nominations for #EOT2024. Going forward, you can submit government URL nominations using a similar tool: digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/G... Crawls of post-EOT seeds won’t be part of the #EOTArchive, but will appear in the @archive.org Wayback Machine

@archive.org is an #EOTArchive team member, that has been archiving the public web since 1996. As with many supporting orgs they crawl every seeded federal government URL. These crawl efforts contribute to our 700+ terabytes of public WebArchive (WARC) files #EOT2024

Here’s a new user interface for select #EOT2024 WACZ files that were archived in high fidelity! Great work coming from our archiving team member @webrecorder.net Each playback collection is a standalone mirror, eg. usaid.govarchive.us/about-us/mis...

🗽 Give us your hidden, your overlooked, Your orphaned Gov URLs yearning to be preserved, The forgotten databases of your civic shore. Send these, the neglected, the soon-to-vanish, to us— We lift our crawler beside the open web. 🗽 #EOTArchive #EOT2024

We’re excited to share the first batch of US Government websites that Webrecorder has archived as part of the @eotarchive.org initiative. They’re now available on our public collections gallery app.browsertrix.com/explore/usgo... #WebArchiving #Browsertrix #EOTarchive

We've posted on our friends @eotarchive.org. They do great work and are a great option for rescues. www.datarescueproject.org/end-of-term-...

Answer: They are quadrennial events! FIFA world cup, the olympics and the End of Term web archive occur on four year cycles.

Hint: We begin web archiving months before the election and continue for months after the inauguration. Our partners collaborate, no matter if a new or incumbent President takes office.

Question: What do the End Of Term web archive, Olympics and the FIFA World Cup have in common?

A recent @muckrock.com hosted discussion on data preservation efforts included our Mark Graham @archive.org, Sarah Cohen @biglocalnews.bsky.social, Jack Cushman @harvardlil.bsky.social, and Lynda Kellam @iassistdata.bsky.social a member organization of the @datarescueproject.org

Missed our data preservation event yesterday? We've uploaded the entire discussion on our YouTube channel:

Some federal webpages contain interactive elements that are best preserved using high-fidelity web archiving. Our team member @webrecorder.net has written about handling these efforts in a blog by @ilya.webrecorder.net #EOTArchive #EOT2024

Today @mark.bsky.social spoke with Amy Goodman on @democracynow.org about our quadrennial effort to archive federal websites before, during, and after U.S. presidential administration changes.

Mark Graham, director of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, will join this conversation ⬇️

Join us on Thursday, Feb. 13 as we host a discussion with organizations that are helping lead the efforts to preserve the public’s data.

Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️ Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...

Internet Archive Provides “Update on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive” www.infodocket.com/2025/02/06/i... #eot #archives #webarchives @archive.org @eotarchive.org

We’re proud to be collaborating with the @eotarchive.org and EDGI to capture and preserve critical government websites before they’re lost, using our high-fidelity web archiving tools: Browsertrix and ArchiveWeb.page webrecorder.net/blog/2025-02... #webarchiving #digitalpreservation #EOTarchive

The US Constitution states that the power of the President changes at noon on the 20th. At noon in DC (3hrs ago) the WH homepage changed as well from web.archive.org/web/20250105... to www.whitehouse.gov We'll include both versions in the End Of Term web archive #EOT2024 #EOTArchive

Thank you for your government URL nominations! Bulk Nomination - 886,998 Nominated URLs Human Nominations - 9,267 More than 200 Nominators! Gov URLs for the End Of Term web crawl are still welcomed, but send them urgently, we cutoff nominations in a few days.

For those interested in a deep dive. Last weeks End Of Term web archive presentation by James R Jacobs @freegovinfo.bsky.social to Gov Info Watch is online at: archive.org/details/eot-presentation-jacobs-20241205 And the slides are available at govinfowatch.net #EOTArchive #EOT2024

End of term crawl 2024 is currently going on (eotarchive.org). We often get questions about @eotarchive.org data collecting. tricky question w no easy answer. Check out MIT libraries data management post to learn more about collecting govt data libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...

How to Access the EOT Web Archives Visit web.archive.org Scroll to 🔎Collection Search section Select "End Of Term (US Gov 2024)" from the menu Type in your query term and click search Or download bulk WARC files from eotarchive.org/data/ #EOT2024 #EOTArchive

Every US presidential election period we do a wide crawl of all federal websites. YOU can contribute to the 2024 End of Term Web Archive eotarchive.org/contribute/ - Nominate Gov URLs - Upload bulk seed lists - Help surface database deep links - Spread the word #EOT2024 #EOTArchive