Neill, Ben

Extent

2 websites in 2 archived website.

Scope and Contents

The website contains a biography of the artist, information about his compositions and projects, a calendar of his events, his blog, press relating to Neill, and examples of his works in the form of embedded audio and video files as well as prose writings. The compositions featured on the site highlight his work as the inventor and player of the mutantrumpet, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument based on the trumpet, and a composer of instrumental music influenced by jazz, electronica, and classical styles. Capture of the site began in February 2014. This description is based on the December 2017 capture of the site. Also includes the musical collaboration website for vocalist Mimi Goese and electronic trumpeter Ben Neill. The website includes news, musical performances, videos, and music from the collaboration.

Accruals

New site crawls are accrued semiannually.

Appraisal

Robots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored. Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of http://www.benneill.com/ in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.

Embedded Spotify files were not captured due to technological constraints.

Externally hosted content

Archived website of Ben Neill
https://wayback.archive-it.org/4049/*/http://www.benneill.com/

Externally hosted content

Mimi Goese and Ben Neill Archived Website: August 2016-ongoing
https://wayback.archive-it.org/4049/*/https://www.mimigoeseandbenneill.com/