It’s once again time for the weekly web archiving roundup!  What follows is a selection of relevant news items compiled by the Web Archiving Roundtable steering committee and Best Practices/Toolbox committee members.  These news items will be posted each Wednesday, and will be pertinent to anyone with an interest in web archiving, whether it’s something you do every day or just something you find intriguing.

• UK Web Archive on Political Party web archives: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive/2013/12/political-party-web-archives.html

• Can we save the web? by Vangelis Banos–Web Archiving Tutorial full presentation at FutureLibrary Unconference 2013: http://www.slideshare.net/vbanos1/can-you-save-the-web-web-archiving

• UK Web Archive–Ian Cooke on compiling a Nelson Mandela web archive collection: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/socialscience/2013/12/the-personal-and-political-memories-and-commemoration-of-nelson-mandela-on-the-web.html

• Mark Ballard–UK prepares to launch internet archive without internet access: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240210795/UK-prepares-to-launch-internet-archive-without-internet-access

• Queensland war history goes digital, by Natalie Bochenski: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/queensland-war-history-goes-digital-20131210-2z3yv.html

EDIT: to keep up with our prolific Best Practices/Toolbox Committee members, here’s an addition to this week’s roundup:

• Solving the Supreme Court’s link rot problem, by Kathleen Hickey. This article covers the Supreme Court’s link rot problem and what solutions have been proposed. http://gcn.com/Articles/2013/10/04/Supreme-Court-links.aspx?Page=1

• Digital Conversations: The Scholarly Use of Web Archives, Moderated by David Gauntlett.  This is a recording of a conversation that discussed many topics including: how we capture the changeability of websites, what tools and skills do we need to use web archives in research, whether we need an international project for web archiving and whether the term web archive is holding back archiving of the web. It was recorded at the British Library on 26 September 2013. http://www.bl.uk/whatson/podcasts/podcast154924.html

• The Internet Archive puts Atari games and obsolete software directly in your browser, by Adi Robertson. An announcement that the Internet Archive has now launched a new Javascript-based software emulator that can be used through a web browser.http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/25/5028974/internet-archives-new-historic-software-collection

• This Is What People Thought Of The Internet In The 1980s And 1990s:A researcher has taken snippets of online conversation and put them on twitter. In doing so he has captured a piece of how people viewed the World Wide Web in its Early Days.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/14/1980s-internet_n_4085953.html

• Fixing Broken Links on the Internet, by Alexis Rossi (IA blog). The Internet Archive announces a new initiative to fix broken links across the Internet.  https://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/

• MatrixStore Digital Preservation Platform Integrates With Front Porch Digital’s LYNXSM Cloud CSM System. http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews.asp?id=171159

• Documents from the Blog Forever Project. https://zenodo.org/collection/user-blogforever

• NYARC Libraries Announce Plans for a Shared Program to Preserve Digital Art Resources. The New York Art Resource Council has been awarded $340,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to archive specialized art history material. A study previously found that much of the printed material the institutions were collecting had migrated online. http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/NYARC-Libraries-Announce-Plans-for-a-Shared-Program-to-Preserve-Digital-Art-Resources-20131113#

• Protect Your Data: The Internet Archive’s Lesson in Fire Preparation, by Emma Beck. A brief analysis of the Internet Archive fire and what lessons can be learned. http://associationsnow.com/2013/11/protect-your-data-the-internet-archives-lesson-in-fire-preparation/

• Reed Tech and Internet Archive Announce Agreement to Jointly Market and Sell Archive-It. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131111005077/en/Reed-Tech-Internet-Archive-Announce-Agreement

• North Korea erases online archives, by Tania Branigan. North Korea has deleted a large online archive of articles referencing Kim Jong Un’s Uncle. The move follows his execution and is intended to erase all knowledge of him.  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/north-korea-erases-kim-jongun-uncle-archives

• Autodesk Launches New Tool for Digital Preservation, by Vanessa Quirk. AutoDesk has partnered with the Smithsonian to launch a new tool called x3DExplorer. It will allow the latter’s collections to be preserved as 3D models which will someday be able to be printed out using a 3D printer.  http://www.archdaily.com/452845/autodesk-launches-new-tool-for-digital-preservation/