EOT End Of Term Web Archive

GovInfo Day(s) Spring 2025 brought together librarians, archivists & digital stewards to champion long-term access to government info. Hosted by Internet Archive Canada, SFU & UBC. Inspiring sessions on digital preservation & public access.
🔗 internetarchivecanada.org/2025/05/07/r...
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@eotarchive.org is in the middle of harvesting the ERIC database. We’ve currently collected 24000 PDF files (going on 500,000+... should be done later today). There’s a full-text keyword collection search at web.archive.org where you can choose to search Eric.ed.gov collection. @archive.org FTW!

SF Chronicle: “Trump’s War on Information Meets a Dedicated Adversary: University #Librarians” www.infodocket.com/2025/05/02/s... #libraries #archives @archive.org @eotarchive.org @envirodgi.bsky.social @datarescueproject.org

We have a busy day today full of rescue and talking. The RDAP leadership is killing it with a data rescue event. And later, we will be presenting with @pegiproject.bsky.social and @eotarchive.org with some awesome Canadians at GovInfo Day! www.eventbrite.com/e/govinfo-da...

Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion Swathes of scientific data deletions are sweeping across US government websites – with decades of research at risk. Now, scientists are racing to save their work before it's lost.

BBC Report: "Inside The Desperate Rush to Save Decades of Us Scientific #Data From Deletion"
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... #webarchives #dataresecue @eotarchive.org @datarescueproject.org @archive.org

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...

🗽 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

Screenshot of Webrecorder's public collection gallery of US government sites web archive on Browsertrix

We’re excited to share the first batch of US Government websites that Webrecorder has archived as part of the
@eotarchive.org initiative. They’re now available on our public collections gallery app.browsertrix.com/explore/usgo...

#WebArchiving #Browsertrix #EOTarchive

Where can you put it? Try EOT! We have had a lot of interest in our work over the weekend, probably because of the New Yorker article and the recent Executive Order targeting several key offices, especially for us librarians. We we...

We've posted on our friends @eotarchive.org. They do great work and are a great option for rescues. www.datarescueproject.org/end-of-term-...

bsky.app/profile/eota...

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

Since the start of the new Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning... Federal data is disappearing. Meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help.

Missed our data preservation event yesterday? We've uploaded the entire discussion on our YouTube channel:

Preserving Government Websites with Browsertrix • Webrecorder Blog A collaborative effort alongside the End of Term Web Archive to capture and save history.

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

Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights. Amid this mass erasure ...

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.

Mark Graham, director of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, will join this conversation ⬇️

Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help. Since the start of the new Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning with major changes and sometimes not…

Join us on Thursday, Feb. 13 as we host a discussion with organizations that are helping lead the efforts to preserve the public’s data.

The crawls for this current transition are ongoing. However a portion of it is has been made available by EOT team member Internet Archive

This could be a starting point for your search
web.archive.org/collection-s...

Whitehouse.gov captures from: 2008 Sept. 15; 2013 Mar. 21; 2017 Feb. 3; and 2021 Feb. 25

Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️

Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...

Internet Archive Provides “Update on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive” www.infodocket.com/2025/02/06/i... #eot #archives #webarchives @archive.org @eotarchive.org

Preserving Government Websites with Browsertrix • Webrecorder Blog A collaborative effort alongside the End of Term Web Archive to capture and save history.

We’re proud to be collaborating with the @eotarchive.org and EDGI to capture and preserve critical government websites before they’re lost, using our high-fidelity web archiving tools: Browsertrix and ArchiveWeb.page

webrecorder.net/blog/2025-02...

#webarchiving #digitalpreservation #EOTarchive

The Whitehouse homepage in the morning of the inauguration with the image of a smiling Joe Biden in the Oval Office.

The Whitehouse homepage in the afternoon of Inauguration Day 2025 with the image of a Donald Trump pointing.

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.

EOT Presentation Jacobs 20241205 : James R. Jacobs : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Zoom presentation by James R. Jacobs about the End of Term project (https://eotarchive.org). This talk was organized by Patrice McDermott of Government...

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

End of term crawl 2024 is currently going on (eotarchive.org). We often get questions about @eotarchive.org data collecting. tricky question w no easy answer. Check out MIT libraries data management post to learn more about collecting govt data libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...