By Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo)

(Cross-posted and adapted from an earlier post I wrote for the IIPC’s blog)

The web archiving community is a great one, but it can sometimes be a bit confusing to enter. Unlike communities such as the Digital Humanities, which has developed aggregation services like DH Now, the web archiving community is a bit more dispersed. But fear not, there are a few places to visit to get a quick sense of what’s going on. Here I just want to give a quick rundown of how you can learn about web archiving on social media, from technical walkthroughs, and from blogs.

I’m sure I’m missing stuff – let us all know in the comments!

Social Media

A substantial amount of web archiving scholarship happens online. I use Twitter (I’m at @ianmilligan1), for example, as a key way to share research findings and ideas that I have as my project comes together. I usually try to hashtag them with: #webarchiving. This means that all tweets that people use “#webarchiving” with will show up in that specific timeline.

For best results, using a Twitter client like Tweetdeck, Tweetbot, or Echofon can help you keep appraised of things. There may be Facebook groups – I actually don’t use Facebook (!) so I can’t provide much guidance there. Continue reading So You’re a Historian Who Wants to Get Started in Web Archiving →