An Overview of Web Archiving

Overview of the Netarkivet web archiving system

The Netarkivet web archiving system is creating to fulfill our obligation as national archives to collect and preserve Danish internet material. It uses the Internet Archive’s Heritrix crawler to harvest data, but surrounding that is a in-house developed system to automate harvests and archive the results. This article presents a rough sketch of the overall system along with some more detail on...

The Web-at-Risk at Three: Overview of an NDIIPP Web Archiving Initiative

The Web-at-Risk project is a multi-year National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) funded effort to enable librarians and archivists to capture, curate, and preserve political and government information on the Web, and to make the resulting Web archives available to researchers. The Web-at-Risk project is a collaborative effort between the California Digital L...

BlogForever: From Web Archiving to Blog Archiving

In this paper, we introduce blog archiving as a special type of web archiving and present the findings and developments of the BlogForever project. Apart from an overview of other related projects and initiatives that constitute and extend the capabilities of web archiving, we focus on empirical work of the project, a presentation of the BlogForever data model, and the architecture of the BlogF...

Archiving Web Video

Web archivists have a difficult time gathering web video that are, more often than not served with non-standard tools and protocols. This paper offers a survey of the state of the art in this domain. Based on an experience of several years gathering web video content, we present detailed examples to help understand the issues and solution to capture web video content. We also present a architec...

Nearline Web Archiving