In October 2014, Marty Magee shared some informative resources about Ebola with the NCompass Blog community. That month the National Library of Medicine (NLM) began capturing and preserving born-digital content about the Ebola outbreak as they anticipated its use as primary source material for future research. The subsequent Ebola Outbreak 2014 online collection provided opportunities to compare web pages and dates. For instance, the
USAID Ebola web page could be compared to one from the CDC or it could be compared to itself. What was the USAID Ebola page like on October 22, 2014 versus January 20, 2016? Or how did tweets containing #ebola from October 4, 2014 compare to those from June 20, 2015? You can see for yourself by visiting
https://archive-it.org/collections/4887?fc=websiteGroup%3AEbola+Outbreak+2014 .
For more information about the development of the Ebola Outbreak 2014 digital collection and archiving born-digital content, check out these blog posts and lecture recordings from Christie Moffatt, Archivist & Manager of the Digital Manuscripts Program in the History of Medicine Division of the NLM:
Christie Moffatt described the reasoning and beginnings of the collection on an NLM Circulating Now post, November 19, 2014:
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2014/11/19/future-historical-collections-archiving-the-2014-ebola-outbreak/
History of Medicine Lecture by Christie Moffatt about the development of the Ebola Web Archive, March 10, 2016:
http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?19543
NLM Circulating Now blog interview with Christie Moffatt about herself and her work, March 10, 2016:
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2016/03/10/future-historical-collections-archiving-the-2014-ebola-outbreak-2/
(via Annette Parde-Maass)
A little note on the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) coordinators in Nebraska:
Since October 2014, Marty moved to another position at UNMC, Christian Minter was hired in Marty’s former position NN/LM, and Annette Parde-Maass was hired as Creighton University’s NN/LM Coordinator (formerly the position held by Monica Rogers).
