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Lisa,

Is your local web archive available online? I'd like to see a production
example of non-Internet Archive instance of Wayback/Open Wayback.

Thanks,
Nathan


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:17 PM, L Snider <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
> > > >
> > >
> >
>