June was ArchivePress Month 1, and already it’s hard to keep up, particularly with the online buzz. We’ve attracted a modicum of interest in the Twitosphere:

• JISC-PoWR » Blog Archive » ArchivePress: When One Size Doesn’t Fit All: JISC-PoWR has discussed many times h.. http://tinyurl.com/mm8xjv 25th June, 2009 31daysblog (Jan Olsen)
• @judell you run across http://archivepress.ulcc.ac.uk/ yet? I’ve heard you touch on the archiving of blog content in your podcasts 24th June, 2009 edsu (Ed Summers)
• AMERICAN WRITER UK: A New Project to Learn What it Takes to Archive Blog Content: ArchivePress is.. http://bit.ly/Xq1cm 24th June, 2009 UCMTSU (AMERICAN WRITER)
• UK: A New Project to Learn What it Takes to Archive Blog Content: ArchivePress is a blog-archiving project being.. http://u.mavrev.com/du0k 24th June, 2009 EveX1984 (NEGO_The_Real_Twitt)
• UK: A New Project to Learn What it Takes to Archive Blog Content: From a Web Site:
  ArchivePress is a blog-archiv.. http://tinyurl.com/nu99n8 24th June, 2009 infoboy (infoboy)
• Nieuwe webtip: ArchivePress http://tinyurl.com/ltgemx 24th June, 2009 archief20 (Archief 2.0)
• Blog archiving project launched: via @mopennock: Our ArchivePress website has been launched – see http://archivepress.ulcc.ac.uk/ 24th June, 2009 archivesnext (Kate T.)

We’ve also had some highly useful discussions about the project on the JISC-PoWR blog and at Peter Murray-Rust’s blog. Among the things I’ve learned from them is that:

• We have to continue to make our scope and use cases clear, particularly with regard to distinguishing our approach from crawling/spidering/harvesting. Creating local static copies of HTML renderings is the daddy of web archiving approaches, but our thesis is: TIMTOWTDI.
• We’re not alone in thinking that blogs merit being treated differently from ‘traditional’ websites, and that this (setting a blog to catch a blog) might be a worthwhile idea/approach. but there are bridges to cross, notably the comments-harvesting.
• Throughout academia – teaching, learning, research and administration – blogs are going from strength to strength. It would be a crime not to ensure they are preserved for future research.

July is the month when I get on with our first demonstrator, AP1, and record the process and the review the results. And IWMW2009 and Enduring Web at BL. And the JISCRI Projects startup meeting I’m sitting in right now.