Tag Archives: web archiving

A Workshop for the Web

We delivered our first DPTP workshop in London on 28 June 2010, on the subject of archiving websites. I delivered most of the training myself, working from my experience with archiving JISC project websites, writing the PoWR Handbook, and my sense for how the work should fit into a traditional archiving continuum. Accordingly I tried [...]

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 [...]

JISC-PoWR @ IWMW2008

Seems I turned up just in time for the UKOLN IWMW 2008 event at Aberdeen. The sun was shining, weather was sweet, and the University buildings in Old Aberdeen looked magnificent. Not only outside – the Conference Hall in the Old King’s Library is a beautiful example of state of the art conferencing facilities, complete [...]