As a resident Digital Archivist at the Folger, I’ve been tasked with the management of Folger web archiving efforts. Now, you might be asking: what is web archiving exactly? The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) defines web archiving as the process of “collecting portions of the World Wide Web, preserving the collections in an archival format [most often via the WARC file format], and then serving the archives for access and use.”… Continue Reading