Preserving Web-Based Auction Catalogs

Gretchen Nadasky IMLS Grant Project Pratt Institute MSLIS LIS-698 Dr. Tula Giannini

Auction Catalogs

THE CHALLENGE –  More auction houses are choosing to publish their catalogs on-line.  The digital catalog may be the only  record of the sale.  The goal of this project is … Continue reading

May 1, 2013 · Leave a comment

Preserving the Legacy

THE GOAL – To preserve on-line auction catalogs for future art researchers by selecting ephemeral websites to be archived.   The process includes: website analysis, performing trials with Archive-It and … Continue reading

May 1, 2013 · Leave a comment

Using Archive-It

THE TOOLS – The Internet Archive crawls the web at various intervals with Heritrix software that takes snapshots of individual pages.  The pages can be searched by URL using the … Continue reading

April 26, 2013 · Leave a comment

Gretchen Nadasky

Gretchen Nadasky