Karl @landlibrarian@digipres.club
Web archivist for IA
Joined Feb 2018
Archive-It partners: HMU if you're so excited for 🌈 WASAPI💫 that you 🅰️ know what that is, and 🅱️ want a comments-welcome preview of the docs
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Happy first anniversary to being called a Russian op by Joy Reid. Web archives, folk. They're real
Baby's first commit to Wayback master!! 🎉 It only took me 3.5 years 😅 Watch out now
I heard y'all like term-limited preservation jobs, right? https://uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/5883/project-mgr.-for-enhancing-services-to-preserve-new-forms-of-scholarship/job
Karl
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and just reminds me of the absolute brilliance and innovation from preteen/teens girls on the internet circa y2k, and how so many of us got discouraged from and pushed out of making careers out of this tech knowledge
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the stackoverflow "homage to the 90s" being so femme just reinforces to me how much of a coded-"neutral male" the space is, and reads to me that the feminine is meant to be a source of ridicule
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Last year, I wrote about an early, no-longer-existent website that was influential to young me for this “Museum of The Lost Web” project http://allegrarosenberg.com/school/mlw-project/stories/ashley-blewer 😍🖥
My rapper name is gstatic. This is a web archiving joke. Byeeee
Been a long time coming and I'm super stoked to finally share some bilingual web archives and outreach:
🇺🇲 https://archive-it.org/blog/post/2018-mexican-government-web-archive/
🇲🇽 https://archive-it.org/blog/post/archivo-web-de-sitios-web-gubernamentales-mexicanos-2018/
Thanks to Natalie Baur for being that kind of collaborator we all aspire to be in digital archives and libraries.
My most frequently visited Wikipedia article by a longshot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_browsers
“This economic stratification of digital library communities is counter to the radical, social justice spirit in which these initiatives were originally launched.”
Straight 🔥 all the way down
https://www.ladyscience.com/blog/linked-data-unlinked-communities
When teens web archive: https://archive-it.org/collections/3003
"THE NEW BEST PANTS. SPENDY. BUT ALL GIRLS WANT MORE AND MORE."
@sabrams this makes me so happy
Listening to Carly Rae Jepsen and fixing thousands of Wix archives like a fucking boss tgif 🎶 🖥️ 💃 🎶
There is never, ever a time at which MPOW owes me less than $1K in reimbursements. It's hard y'all.
Straight DSHR 🔥 as always https://blog.dshr.org/2018/11/ithakas-perspective-on-digital.html
This early case study has everything I love about our Community Webs project, addressing archival gaps and silences in public history collections with web archiving: https://archive-it.org/blog/post/make-it-weird/
Web archivist for IA
Joined Feb 2018
