Tag Archives: UKWAC

A Tab in the Ocean

I’ve been using Web Curator Tool (WCT) to curate the JISC website collection at UKWA since 2008. I’ve long been aware that the system offered me the opportunity to record a lot of metadata, in tabs called General, Annotations, Groups and Access. It’s a mix of technical metadata (about the gather / website) and descriptive [...]

Working with Web Curator Tool (part 2): wikis

How to archive a website built with a wiki? It’s worth looking into this as increasingly JISC projects are using wikis to manage and report on their projects; of the available brands, MediaWiki is a popular one. The challenge for me is how to bring in a good copy of a wiki site without causing [...]

Working with Web Curator Tool (part 1)

Keen readers may recall a post from April 2008 about my website-archiving forays working with Web Curator Tool, the workflow database, used for programming Heritrix, the crawler which does the harvesting of websites. Other UKWAC partners and myself have since found that Heritrix sometimes has a problem, described by some as ‘collateral harvesting’. This means [...]

The Continuity Girl

Amanda Spencer gave an informative presentation at the UK Web-Archiving Consortium Partners Meeting on 23 July, which I happened to attend. The Web Continuity Project at TNA is a large-scale and Government-centric project, which includes a “comprehensive archiving of the government web estate by The National Archives”. Its aims are to address both “persistence” and [...]

Web-archiving: the WCT workflow tool

This month I have been happily harvesting JISC project website content using my new toy, the Web Curator Tool. It has been rewarding to resume work on this project after a hiatus of some months; the former setup, which used PANDAS software, has been winding down since December. Who knows what valuable information and website [...]