Please join your colleagues at the Radcliffe Gymnasium on Friday, May 1, from noon until 2 pm, for a brown-bag lunch entitled:
WAX: A Candle in the Darkness: a digital to digital project.
In February, the Harvard University Library launched its first system created solely for "born digital" archiving. WAX – the Web Archive Collections Service (http://wax.lib.harvard.edu) – began as a pilot project, funded by the Library Digital Initiative. The goal of WAX is to address ingest, storage, preservation, and basic delivery of web sites for long-term archiving.
The program is presented by Wendy Marcus Gogel, project manager for WAX, and Andrea Goethals, digital preservation and repository manager, both from the Harvard University Library Office for Information Systems. Gogel and Goethals, together with the WAX collection curators, will offer a demonstration of the new service and the three initial WAX collections:
Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, University archivist:
A-Sites: Archived Harvard Web Sites collected by the Harvard University Archives
Marilyn Dunn, executive director of the Schlesinger Library and Librarian of the Radcliffe Institute:
Blogs: Capturing Women's Voices collected by the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society:
Web Archiving Project on Constitutional Revision collected by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies with Sponsorship from the Harvard College Library Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan
In addition to the demonstrations, the presentation will include overviews of the system, collection management issues, preservation and legal challenges, and the underlying technologies.
This talk is co-presented by the Professional Development Committee of the Librarian's Assembly and the Learning Opportunities Standing Committee. If you have any questions about this program or would like more information please contact
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Marilyn Morgan, Ph.D.
Manuscripts
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women
Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University