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Warcreate And Wail: Warc, Wayback, And Heritrix Made Easy, Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle Jan 2013

Warcreate And Wail: Warc, Wayback, And Heritrix Made Easy, Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle

Computer Science Faculty Publications

[First slide]

The Problem

Institutional Tools, Personal Archivists

  • ON YOUR MACHINE

-Complex to Operate

-Require Infrastructure

  • DELEGATED TO INSTITUTIONS

-$$$

-Lose original perspective

  • Locale content tailoring (DC vs. San Francisco)
  • Observation Medium (PC web browser vs. Crawler)


Warcreate - Create Wayback-Consumable Warc Files From Any Webpage, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson Jan 2012

Warcreate - Create Wayback-Consumable Warc Files From Any Webpage, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Faculty Publications

[First Slide]

What is WARCreate?

  • Google Chrome extension
  • Creates WARC files
  • Enables preservation by users from their browser
  • First steps in bringing Institutional Archiving facilities to the PC