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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 -- 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) < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 >