Abstract
Cobweb: A Collaborative Collection Development Platform for Web Archiving
Highlights
The California Digital Library, Harvard Library, and UCLA Library seek $243,765 to develop Cobweb - a lightweight open-source collaborative collection development platform supporting the creation of comprehensive web archives by coordinating the independent activities of the web archiving community
Radical collaboration to support the national digital platform emerged as a priority for libraries, archives, museums, and allied institutions━ IMLS Focus Summary Report: The National Digital Platform (2015) We must, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately ━ Benjamin Franklin
The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), of which all three project partners are members, has tried collaborative collecting relying on a nomination tool from the University of North Texas (UNT) and other ad hoc methods such as spreadsheets and email
Summary
Radical collaboration to support the national digital platform emerged as a priority for libraries, archives, museums, and allied institutions━ IMLS Focus Summary Report: The National Digital Platform (2015) We must, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately ━ Benjamin Franklin. Imagine a fast-moving news event, such as the Arab Spring, unfolding online via news reports, videos, blogs, and social media. Recognizing the importance of recording this event, a curator immediately creates a new Cobweb project and issues an open call for. Subject area specialists, interested members of the public, and event participants themselves quickly respond, contributing to a site list that is more comprehensive than could be created by any one curator or institution. Archiving institutions review the site list and publicly claim responsibility for capturing portions of it that are consistent with local collection development policies and technical capacities. The institutions’ holdings information is updated in Cobweb to disclose the various collections containing newly available content. More content is captured more quickly with less overall effort than would otherwise be possible
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