EOT End Of Term Web Archive
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Please submit any government URL for inclusion into the 2024
#EOTArchive
- University of North Texas is now accepting seed nominations for post-EOT crawls: digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/G... Crawls from this seed list will not be a part of the #EOT2024 #EOTArchive
- We are wrapping up seed list nominations for #EOT2024. Going forward, you can submit government URL nominations using a similar tool: digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/G... Crawls of post-EOT seeds won’t be part of the #EOTArchive, but will appear in the @archive.org Wayback Machine
- @archive.org is an #EOTArchive team member, that has been archiving the public web since 1996. As with many supporting orgs they crawl every seeded federal government URL. These crawl efforts contribute to our 700+ terabytes of public WebArchive (WARC) files #EOT2024
- Here’s a new user interface for select #EOT2024 WACZ files that were archived in high fidelity! Great work coming from our archiving team member @webrecorder.net Each playback collection is a standalone mirror, eg. usaid.govarchive.us/about-us/mis...
- Ever wanted to restore a taken down site from a web archive, with link navigation and references intact? Our latest tooling make this simpler than ever! Announcing govarchive.us - a dynamic, web archive-powered mirror of US government sites! More details on our blog webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03...
- 🗽 Give us your hidden, your overlooked, Your orphaned Gov URLs yearning to be preserved, The forgotten databases of your civic shore. Send these, the neglected, the soon-to-vanish, to us— We lift our crawler beside the open web. 🗽 #EOTArchive #EOT2024
- Answer: They are quadrennial events! FIFA world cup, the olympics and the End of Term web archive occur on four year cycles.
- Hint: We begin web archiving months before the election and continue for months after the inauguration. Our partners collaborate, no matter if a new or incumbent President takes office.
- Question: What do the End Of Term web archive, Olympics and the FIFA World Cup have in common?
- A recent @muckrock.com hosted discussion on data preservation efforts included our Mark Graham @archive.org, Sarah Cohen @biglocalnews.bsky.social, Jack Cushman @harvardlil.bsky.social, and Lynda Kellam @iassistdata.bsky.social a member organization of the @datarescueproject.org
- Some federal webpages contain interactive elements that are best preserved using high-fidelity web archiving. Our team member @webrecorder.net has written about handling these efforts in a blog by @ilya.webrecorder.net #EOTArchive #EOT2024
- Today @mark.bsky.social spoke with Amy Goodman on @democracynow.org about our quadrennial effort to archive federal websites before, during, and after U.S. presidential administration changes.
- The US Constitution states that the power of the President changes at noon on the 20th. At noon in DC (3hrs ago) the WH homepage changed as well from web.archive.org/web/20250105... to www.whitehouse.gov We'll include both versions in the End Of Term web archive #EOT2024 #EOTArchive
- Thank you for your government URL nominations! Bulk Nomination - 886,998 Nominated URLs Human Nominations - 9,267 More than 200 Nominators! Gov URLs for the End Of Term web crawl are still welcomed, but send them urgently, we cutoff nominations in a few days.
- For those interested in a deep dive. Last weeks End Of Term web archive presentation by James R Jacobs @freegovinfo.bsky.social to Gov Info Watch is online at: archive.org/details/eot-presentation-jacobs-20241205 And the slides are available at govinfowatch.net #EOTArchive #EOT2024
- How to Access the EOT Web Archives Visit web.archive.org Scroll to 🔎Collection Search section Select "End Of Term (US Gov 2024)" from the menu Type in your query term and click search Or download bulk WARC files from eotarchive.org/data/ #EOT2024 #EOTArchive
- Every US presidential election period we do a wide crawl of all federal websites. YOU can contribute to the 2024 End of Term Web Archive eotarchive.org/contribute/ - Nominate Gov URLs - Upload bulk seed lists - Help surface database deep links - Spread the word #EOT2024 #EOTArchive
