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Political Communications Web Archive Project

Project Teams

Long-term Resource Management Team

Objective: Determine the organizational and economic framework necessary to support the archiving of Web political materials on an ongoing basis and the persistent availability of those resources for long-term research use.

Team Leader Bernard Reilly Center for Research Libraries
     
Principals James Simon Center for Research Libraries
  Karen Fung: kfung at stanford.edu Stanford University
  Jerome McDonough: jerome.mcdonough at nyu.edu New York University
  Nancy McGovern: nm84 at cornell.edu Cornell University
  Carolyn Palaima: c.palaima at mail.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin
 
Gretchen Tuchel
Center for Research Libraries
     
Advisors Michelle Kimpton: michele at archive.org Internet Archives
  Daniel Greenstein: daniel.greenstein at ucop.edu California Digital Library
  Martha Anderson: mande at loc.gov Library of Congress

Curatorial Team

Objective: Identify the optimal curatorial regimes, practices adn tools for ongoing identification, targeting and capture of the various types of Web political communications to be archived. Develop a growth plan, reconciling Web archiving and curatorial methodologies with traditional collection development activities adn the regimens and perodicities appropriate to the capture of various kinds of communications.

Team Leader Carolyn Palaima: c.palaima at mail.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin
     
Principals Karen Fung: kfung at stanford.edu Stanford
  Allen Riedy: ajr2 at cornell.edu Cornell
  Michael Nash: michael.nash at nyu.edu NYU
  Kent Norsworthy: kent at info.lanic.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin
  Gretchen Tuchel Center for Research Libraries
     
Advisors Carolyn Brown: cbro at loc.gov Library of Congress
  Peter Lor: Peter.Lor at nlsa.ac.za National Library of South Africa
  Georgia Harper University of Texas at Austin

Technology Team

Objective: Identify and specify the most appropriate technology architecture(s), tools and techniques for gathering, preserving and accessing Web-based political communications and the associated costs, benefits, characteristics and risk factors.

Team Leader Jerome McDonough: jerome.mcdonough at nyu.edu NYU
     
Principals Leslie Myrick: leslie.myrick at nyu.edu NYU
  Nancy McGovern: mn84 at cornell.edu Cornell
  Ning Lin: lin at mail.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin
  Michele Kimpton: michele at archive.org Internet Archive
     
Advisor Punya Rawal Center for Research Libraries -Systems Analyst

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