Website and Social Media Archiving
Meet Kaitlyn Pettengill, our new Digital Archives Specialist. She will discuss some commonly used tools for archiving your website, blog, and social media with a focus on preserving the experience and functionality of your original digital artifact. Whether you are looking to preserve a particular digital event or your own institutional website, your web presence is worth archiving!
Kaitlyn will also discuss her role at the Center and how to work with her on a digital preservation assessment, digitization plan, and other services.
This webinar addresses Focus Area #1: Preservation of Technology-Based Cultural Heritage of the Foundation for the Advancement in Conservation’s (FAIC) Held in Trust Report on Digital Technology: Research and Practice.
About our speaker:
As the Digital Archives Specialist, Kaitlyn Pettengill conducts digital preservation assessments and assists with digitization planning for collecting organizations. She advises organizations in the ongoing development, implementation, and operation of their digital preservation programs as well as on recommendations for the development and implementation of digital preservation strategies, technologies, and procedures.
Prior to joining the CCAHA staff in 2024, Kaitlyn worked as the Digital Projects Coordinator for the Atwater Kent Collection at Drexel University and as the Digital Services Archivist at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Kaitlyn earned an MLIS from San José State University, where she specialized in Digital Collections and Digital Asset Management. She also holds an MA degree in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and a BA in Art History and English Literature from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.