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donation campaign website that's too complex to crawl).

Question of where to stop is more technical (i.e.

Not many internal stakeholders, no curators, which is why opening to public nominations is helpful.

Does UCSF have clear definitions of where to stop crawling?.

Irvine: no, they're associated with broad collecting areas but mostly not specific collections.

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Are your web archive collections associated with archival collections?.

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How to handle ethical component of what to crawl/not crawl?.

Currently rewriting/updating digital collection development policy to include born-digital and collecting areas, web archiving will be folded into this policy.

More technical/format-related than content-related.

Policy as section/sub-policy of digitization policy.

Airtable form to submit candidates for web archiving:.

Question: how to scope, where to stop collecting? Need specific language to point to, make data limits clear.

Potentially also have a policy about technical elements of web archiving (how to submit content, etc.).

Thinking of handling web archives the same way.

Used to have format-specific policy for zines, now main collecting areas are edited to include them.

Decided not to have a separate policy for web archiving, need to be able to specify what is/isn't appropriate to collect.

Irvine - General collection development policies.

Complements collection development policy.

Collecting mostly in-house (Archives and Special Collections, Collection Strategies Group), main concern is about not going over the limit.

No policy, sometimes someone goes over allocation.

Archive-it instance shared with Digital Initiatives, Digital Scholarship Commons, Special Collections.

Not sure how many departments are crawling, but mostly area studies.

No firm policy, currently have a working group with departments, Campus IT to develop (IT has limits on crawling activity, which is a factor).

Agreement with Campus IT to notify of new websites/website deletions, policy to decide which outgoing websites to save.

Part of effort to publicize web archiving programs, idea that people should nominate URLs.

(we also have a 'Social Media Collecting Policy' ).

Community Webs has another call for applicants out, if you know of any public libraries that might be interested.ĭiscussion: Policy-palooza (web archive collecting policies, should they be format-specific, etc.).

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