All are welcome:
Web Surfing through History: An Introduction to Web Archiving and Archive-It Research Services
Thursday 3/24 4:30 - 6:00pm
Gelman Library, Rm 219
George Washington University
Join Archive-It's Jefferson Bailey and Lori Donovan for an afternoon talk introducing the concepts and practices behind web archiving and the Internet Archive's Archive-It service. Learn how the web is harvested using crawlers, seeds, and WARCs, and get an introduction to how web archives can be browsed and data mined by researchers. The first half of the session will be a presentation from Jefferson and Lori, and the second half will be time for Q&A.