Editors:   Marion Frank-Wilson,  Karen Fung,  Timothy Johnson,  Lauris Olson,  Jason Schultz,  Mohamed el Seoud

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About Current Events in Africa Web Archive (CEAWA)

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CEAWA is a collaborative pilot project led and funded by the Africana Librarians Council Title VI Librarians. This project is dedicated to archiving websites which document current events in African countries. The goal of this project is to identify challenges, develop best practices and, ultimately, gain insights into developing a long-term plan to create permanent archive copies of content-rich websites that are valuable to scholars and students interested in the study of Africa.  

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Development of CEAWA:

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• The idea of a project – proposal for a 3-year pilot project to archive websites on current events in Africa

  • Background/context

  • Pilot project

  • Budget and logistics

  • Best practices

  • Selection criteria and initial set of websites 

  • Anticipated outcomes - goals for the pilot

• Half time report 

  • Accomplishments​

  • Challenges

  • Archived websites/blogs

  • Webarchiving glossary

• Final report and appendix of archived websites

  • Development of the project

  • Challenges

  • Accomplishments

  • Questions and considerations

  • Recommendations 

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