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===Archive-It{{anchor|Archive-It}}=== Created in early 2006, Archive-It<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archive-it.org/ |title=archive-it.org |publisher=archive-it.org |access-date=April 13, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130414092416/http://archive-it.org/ |archive-date=April 14, 2013 }}</ref> is a web archiving subscription service that allows institutions and individuals to build and preserve collections of digital content and create digital archives. Archive-It allows the user to customize their capture or exclusion of web content they want to preserve for cultural heritage reasons. Through a web application, Archive-It partners can harvest, catalog, manage, browse, search, and view their archived collections.<ref>{{Cite book |url = http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:25658314 |last = Truman |first = Gail |date = January 2016 |title = Web Archiving Environmental Scan |series = Harvard Library Report |access-date = October 3, 2017 |archive-date = December 8, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191208122749/http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:25658314 |url-status = live }}</ref> In terms of accessibility, the archived web sites are full text searchable within seven days of capture.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bragg |first=Molly |date=July 28, 2014 |title=What is the Difference between the General Archive (sometimes called the Wayback Machine) and Archive-It? |url=https://webarchive.jira.com/wiki/display/ARIH/Archive-It+How-to+FAQ#Archive-ItHow-toFAQ-differencebetween |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161004224713/https://webarchive.jira.com/wiki/display/ARIH/Archive-It+How-to+FAQ#Archive-ItHow-toFAQ-differencebetween |archive-date=October 4, 2016 |publisher=Archive-It |via=Jira.com}}</ref> Content collected through Archive-It is captured and stored as a [[WARC (file format)|WARC file]]. A primary and back-up copy is stored at the Internet Archive data centers. A copy of the WARC file can be given to subscribing partner institutions for geo-redundant preservation and storage purposes to their best practice standards.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archive-it.org/learn-more |title=About Archive-It |publisher=Archive-It. |access-date=March 3, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221160344/https://archive-it.org/learn-more |archive-date=February 21, 2014 }}</ref> Periodically, the data captured through Archive-It is indexed into the Internet Archive's general archive. {{As of|2014|03}}, Archive-It had more than 275 partner institutions in 46 U.S. states and 16 countries that have captured more than 7.4 billion URLs for more than 2,444 public collections.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} Archive-It partners are universities and college libraries, state archives, federal institutions, museums, law libraries, and cultural organizations, including the [[Electronic Literature Organization]], North Carolina State Archives and Library, [[Stanford University]], [[Columbia University]], [[The American University in Cairo|American University in Cairo]], Georgetown Law Library, and many others.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}
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