K12 Web Archiving Program Lori Donovan Coordinator, K12 Web Archiving Program Internet Archive

Why collaborate on K12 Web Archiving? Archiving at-risk web content from a new perspective - K12 students Library of Congress has a strong educational foundation and contacts in the schools The Archive-It web application allows students and teachers to do hands-on archiving with a user friendly interface, automated crawling and (almost) immediate results

Pilot and Year 1 Pilot Program, Spring 2008 –3 High Schools (California, Illinois, and Louisiana) school year: –9 schools in 7 states 1 Elementary School 2 Middle Schools 6 High Schools –Student archiving groups were: Social studies, journalism, or extended learning classes Extracurricular groups

Program Year 1 Crawling began in October 2008 and continued through April 2009 Crawl frequency - usually weekly, monthly or quarterly Seed level description

Program Account Specifics Document Budget: 15,000,000 documents Data Budget: 1 terabyte of data Active Collection Budget: Up to three collections can be scheduled for crawling at the same time. Active Seed Budget: up to 300 seeds can be scheduled for crawling at any one time

Students as Curators: the Numbers Created 68 collections Crawled 1,704 seeds Archived 233,554,220 URLs 87% of K12 seeds were not being archived by more than one school within the program 97% of K12 seeds were not being archived by other Archive-It partners 24% of K12 seeds are not in the Internet Archive’s general web archive

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Students as Curators: Sample Collections The Heartland - Ames High School, Ames, IA Prom Guide - Lincoln Park High, Chicago, IL Flower Power! - New York Public School 56, Queens Social Networking - Moran Middle School, Wallingford, CT

Students as Curators: Sample Seeds iwaswondering.org – Current Events Collection, Ames Middle School Awesomepedia.org –Internet Culture Collection, Ames High School Werewolf-movies.com –Recreation Collection, Charleston High School Peacesites.org –Peace Collection, Lincoln Park High School

Lessons Learned Changes for the school year

Current School Year: At a Glance 15 schools in 13 states –1 Elementary School –9 Middle Schools –4 High Schools –1 District-wide Program Student archiving groups are: –History, social studies or extended learning classes –Extracurricular groups

Student Age Groups Program pilot - all high school students school year - 5th graders and middle school students were very creative, web-savvy and successful in the program This helped us justify expanding the program to more younger students in the current school year

Training teachers and students Simplified the Archive-It training –Less information about scoping options Created a special area in the Archive-It Help Wiki for K12 documentation Encouraged teachers to use K12 listserv so that new teachers can learn from those in their second or third year of the program

Budgeting and Crawl Frequency Due to the timing of the students’ work on the program, weekly and especially daily crawls could get out of hand This year we explicitly asked schools not to crawl at daily or twice daily frequencies We also encouraged the use of test crawls when creating new collections

Do Not Archive list Students were generally very creative with their seed selection A Do Not Archive list was created to avoid continually archiving the following large sites: –google.com –yahoo.com (including answers.yahoo.com) –imdb.com –wikipedia.org (and en.wikipedia.org) –amazon.com –youtube.com –

Program Participants Cindy Rich –Eastern Illinois University (Charleston High School), Charleston, Illinois Brian Hewlett –Library Media Specialist, Francis C. Hammond Middle School, Alexandria, Virginia