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Editors’ Choice: What Can a Computer See?: Testing the Limits of Automated QA for Web Archives

Editors’ Summary: The process of preserving websites is complicated and time consuming. One essential step, Quality Assurance, involves assessing how well a website was preserved and the best method for doing this is to manually compare the archived version to the live version. The Library of Congress has over 13,000 URLs archived, making QA very […]

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Editors’ Choice: Saving Tangible Media for Tomorrow: A Reflection from Natalie Nemes

Editors’ Summary: In “Saving Tangible Media for Tomorrow: A Reflection from Natalie Nemes,” published on the Library of Congress blog The Signal, 2026 Junior Fellow Natalie Nemes describes her work in the Library’s Tangible Media Project, which reformats at-risk carriers such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, and USB drives before decay, demagnetization, or equipment obsolescence […]