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GeoCities and the spacer.gif

Originally posted here. https://gifcities.org Trevor Owens and Grace Thomas recently had their article, “The invention and dissemination of the spacer gif: implications for the future of access and use of web archives” published in the International Journal of Digital Humanities. It’s a great look at the history of the spacer.gif, how it proliferated in the early web, and a case study of digging into web archives and doing a whole lot of analysis.

The Archives Unleashed Toolkit as a Finding Aid Utility

Originally posted here. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how the Archives Unleashed Toolkit is a great finding aid utility for web archive collections, and should be in the toolbox for any web archivist. So, a finding aid. How could we create a finding aid for a web archive collection with relatively minimal labour? The Society of American Archivists define a finding aid as: A tool that facilitates discovery of information within a collection of records.