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Series V: Archived Websites

Extent

5 websites in 5 archived websites.

Scope and Content Note

This series contains the websites for the American Guild of Musical Artists. Earliest crawls of the website date from 2007, but the site is not navigable until circa 2009. The 2009 iteration of the website contained news, contracts, audition information, board members, image galleries, and signatory institutions. In circa 2017-2018, the website went through a major redesign and included content about the union, and included digitized copies of their publication AGMAzine; explainers for new members; policies on sexual harassment; visa consultation services; auditions listings; agreements and contracts; organizing resources; elections; news and event listings; and information on meetings and board members. In 2024, the website was redesigned. Additional websites in the series include AGMA Funds, a website that hosts informational resources about health and retirement benefits; the AGMA Relief Fund, which provides provides resources to American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) members in need, specifically surrounding the loss of work and money due to performance sector COVID-19 related closures; and the websites for the AGMA units for the Metropolitan Opera Stage Directors and Metropolitan Opera Chorus Artists.

Arrangement

The series is arranged by crawl date.

Accruals

In 2020, https://www.musicalartists.org/ accruals were increased to biweekly. In 2024, https://www.musicalartists.org/ accruals were decreased to monthly.

https://www.metstagedirectors.com/ and https://www.metchorusartists.com/ are accrued semiannually. https://agmarelief.org/ is accrued annually.

Appraisal

Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of musicalartists.org, agmarelief.org, metstagedirectors.com, metchorusartists.com, and agmafunds.org in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012