Hi John, this is an interesting example. 

To add to the story..

Two years ago, the UMI School of Information web archiving class decided to capture the Ann Arbor News since, as you said, it was closing it's doors.
This content was something near and dear to these students and they were extremely motivated to ensure it was saved.
They used Archive-It for a limited period of time and did a great job. However, the class ended and although we tried to keep the collection and crawling active, there was 
no structure in place to do so and so eventually crawling stopped and the collection sunk to the bottom of the pile. 

The clearinghouse might be the structure that we need to enable long term and sustainable collection activity.

Kristine




On Aug 3, 2011, at 8:53 AM, John Weise wrote:

> The example I just mentioned on the call is
> http://annarborchronicle.com/about-us/
> 
> I mentioned this as an example which is a meld of local government, news,
> citizen journalism, professional journalism, blogging. What they are doing
> is quite extraordinary, in part due to the level of detail they report. They
> are using wordpress. They take seriously their long-term responsibility to
> the community. Note that Ann Arbor's long running print newspaper (Ann Arbor
> News) closed down a few years ago. I am not sure how this could be useful to
> the group, but I think it serves as an interesting, if not directly useful,
> example of potentially at-risk content, created by people who recognize the
> risk as well. Perhaps there are hundreds of similar examples and this is
> just the one in my backyard, but I'm inclined to think not.
> 
> 
> full disclosure: These folks are my friends and I advertise a business I own
> on their site.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Grotke, Abigail <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Just a reminder about our call today, in about 50 minutes. Talk with you
>> soon!
>> 
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>> Hello All,
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>> Agenda:
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>> at-risk content -outcomes of the discussions (see notes on the wiki)
>> - what are next steps to reach our goal?  Our action team B goal is:
>> Develop a clearinghouse that will enable a variety of stakeholders (content
>> producers, archives and libraries and other potential preservationists) to:
>> 
>> *   Determine what specific types of content or collections are at risk.
>> *   Identify at-risk content or collections for preservation.
>> *   Match orphan collections with appropriate trusted partner for access
>> and preservation.
>> -how does "value" of content fit into our discussions of at-risk material?
>> 2. Action team B report, if needed.
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