IV. Further reading

Archivability

Tools for site owners to evaluate and mitigate issues that affect web archival quality:

Banos, V., Kim, Y., Ross, S. & Manolopoulos, Y. (2013). CLEAR: A credible method to evaluate website archivability. 10th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES'2013): Lisbon. Retrieve from http://web.archive.org/web/20141113022551/http://purl.pt/24107/1/iPres2013_PDF/CLEAR%20a%20credible%20method%20to%20evaluate%20website%20archivability.pdf

British Library. (n.d.). UK web archive: Technical information. Retrieve from http://web.archive.org/web/20141113022054/http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/info/technical

Columbia University Libraries. (n.d.). Guidelines for preservable websites. Web Resources Collection Program (Web Archiving). Retrieve from http://web.archive.org/web/20141113153534/https://library.columbia.edu/bts/web_resources_collection/guidelines_for_preservable_websites.html

Davis, R.C. (2011, August 2). Five tips for designing preservable websites. Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieve from http://web.archive.org/web/20140720170833/http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/five-tips-designing-preservable-websites

Smith, J.A., & Nelson, M.L. (2008). Creating preservation-ready web resources. D-Lib Magazine, 14(1-2). Retrieve from http://web.archive.org/web/20131001112701/http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january08/smith/01smith.html

Stanford University Libraries. (n.d.). Archivability. Retrieve from http://web.archive.org/web/20141113153150/https://library.stanford.edu/projects/web-archiving/archivability

Taylor, N. (2012, February 6). Designing preservable websites, redux. The Signal: Digital Preservation. Retrieve from http://web.archive.org/web/20131218221804/http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/02/designing-preservable-websites-redux/

Procedural documentation

Precedents from complementary web archiving programs:

Bentley Historical Library, Digital Curation Division. (2013, September 9). Quality assurance for Bentley Historical Library web archives: Guidelines and procedures, Version 3.0. Retrieve from http://web.archive.org/web/20141113022016/http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/94162/BHL_WebArchivesQA-v3-20130909.pdf

Johnson, N. (2011, November 28). QA Guidelines August 2011. WAP - Web Archiving Programme, British Library.

Johnson, N., & Hockx-Yu, H. (2010, June 8). British Library Selective Archiving Quality Assurance Guidelines. WAP - Web Archiving Programme, British Library.

McCurry, J. (2014, May). Folger Shakespeare Library: Web Archives. Folger Shakespeare Library. Retrive from http://web.archive.org/web/20141113022327/http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/mediawiki/media/images_pedia_folgerpedia_mw/a/a3/FSL_WebArchives_Documentation_FINAL.pdf

Popp, T.M. (2014). Web Archiving Service Documentation. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Library Digital Preservation Program. Retrieve from: https://wiki.cites.illinois.edu/wiki/display/LibraryDigitalPreservation/Web+Archiving+Service+Documentation

University of Texas at Austin, Latin American Network Information Center. (2011). LADGA QC protocol.

University of Texas at Austin, Latin American Network Information Center. (2011). LADGA quality control instructions.

Web Curator Tool. (2013, September). User manual. Retrieve from http://web.archive.org/web/20141113022440/http://webcurator.sourceforge.net/

Quality paradigms and issues

General reference for topics shaping expectations of and procedures for QA:

Bingham, N. (2014). Quality assurance paradigms in web archiving pre and post legal deposit. Alexandria, 25(1/2), 21-30.

Brown, A. (2006). Archiving Websites. London: Facet.

Brunelle, J., Kelly, M., SalahEldeen, H., Wigle, M.C., & Nelson, M.L. (2014, September). Not all mementos are created equal: Measuring the impact of missing resources. In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries (DL): London. Retrieve from: http://web.archive.org/web/20141113022633/http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/pubs/jcdl-2014/jcdl-2014-brunelle-damage.pdf

Davis, C. (2014, October 21). Archiving the web: A case study from the University of Victoria. code{4}lib Journal, 26. Retrieve from http://web.archive.org/web/20141113023031/http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10015

Kelly, M., Brunelle, J.F., Weigle, M.C., & Nelson, M.L. (2013, September). On the change in archivability of websites over time. (pp. 35-47) In Proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL).

Kelly, M., Nelson, M.L., & Weigle, M.C. (2014, September). The archival acid test: Evaluating archive performance on advanced HTML and JavaScript. In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries (DL): London. Retrieve from: http://web.archive.org/web/20141113022705/http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mkelly/papers/2014_dl_acid.pdf

Nelson, M.L. (2014, July 23). Assessing the quality of web archives. Digital Preservation 2014: Retrieve from http://web.archive.org/web/20141113022737/http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2014/07/2014-07-25-digital-preservation-2014.html

Pennock, M. (2013, March). Web-archiving (DPC Technology Watch Report 13-01). Digital Preservation Coalition. Retrieve from http://dx.doi.org/10.7207/twr13-01

Reyes Ayela, B., & Phillips, M.E., & Ko, L. (2014, August 19). Current quality assurance practices in web archiving. University of North Texas Libraries. Retrieve from http://web.archive.org/web/20141113023856/http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc333026/m/

Slania, H. (2013). Online art ephemera: Web archiving at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Art Documentation, 32(1), 112-126. Retrieve from http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1086/669993?uid=3739832&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21104848663271