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Rob is right on! I included the wrong link, thanks for catching that... Cheers Lisa On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > For what it's worth, the latest wayback code is: > > https://github.com/iipc/openwayback > > And being developed by the IIPC consortium, rather than just the Internet > Archive alone. > It has many additional features, contributed by other members. > > It should be used in preference to the sourceforge version, IMO. > > Rob > > > > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:00 AM, L Snider <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > >