Hi Kathryn,

Right now the WARC format is considered the best preservation format for
websites/social media, in terms of digital archives. It is our best guess
right now. It will likely will be with us for a long time, because it has
been adopted by most of the major players.

The way I have seen WARCs served up is through Wayback, the manual version
of the Internet Archive's Wayback machine.
http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/projects/wayback/index.html

I have only used Heritrix and Wayback together, so I haven't played with
Wayback and WARCs made another way.

I would stick with WARC in terms of preservation, access is another
story...that would depend on budget, time, etc.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Lisa
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Lisa Snider
Electronic Records Archivist
Harry Ransom Center
The University of Texas at Austin
P.O. Box 7219
Austin, Texas 78713-7219
P: 512-232-4616
www.hrc.utexas.edu



On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Kathryn Frederick (Library) <
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> Hi,
> I'm trying to develop a strategy for preserving issues our school's online
> newspaper. Creating a WARC file of the content seems straightforward, but
> how will that content fair long-term? Also, how is the WARC served to an
> end-user? Is there some other method I should look at?
> Thanks in advance for any advice!
> Kathryn
>