This portal provides researchers and the public the opportunity to search through a collection of webarchives. The webarchives concern a specific topic or a specific part of the Californian government. Partners to this webservice (WAS), as well as researchers, WAS curators and webmasters each get specific insights into the portal. Users can choose a webarchive from the alphabetical list, thus …
Preservation of Web Resources Handbook
Contents: Introduction I Preservation of your web resources 1: What do we mean by preservation? 2: What’s on your web? 3: What risks and issues are peculiar to websites? 4: What are your web archiving requirements? 5: Selection 6: Web Capture: what and how? 7: Tools for the job 8: Web Content Management Systems (CMS) 9: What approaches and techniques …
A METS based information package for long term accessibility of Web Archives
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Web Archiving 3.Preservation Requirements 4. Conclusion The British Library’s web archive comprises several terabyte of harvested websites. Like other content streams this data is ingested into the library’s central preservation repository via a standardized Submission Information Package (SIP). Harvested Websites are stored in Archival Information Packages (AIP). Each AIP is described by a METS file. This …
Web Archiving in Europe
Contents: Context Key figures of results Survey Analysis Presentation 1. Characterization of the community 2. Legal Aspect 3. Management of Web archiving program Conclusion In het kader van het LiWA project is in december 2010 een enquête gehouden onder 364 instellingen in 37 Europese landen om te inventariseren welke organisaties aan een webarchief bouwen en om een actueel beeld te …
An HTTPBased Versioning Mechanism for Linked Data
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Resource Versioning 3. The Memento Framework 4. Memento Resource Versioning 5. Memento Resource Versioning and Linked Data 6. The DBpedia Demonstrator 7. Related Work 8. Conclusions 9. Acknowledgements 10. References Appendix A. An RDF/XML Timemap Het Memento project ontwikkelt een manier om met behulp van het HTTP protocol een webarchief op te bouwen waarin de gebruiker …
Understanding the Information Needs of Web Archive Users
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Related work 2.1 Web Archive Users 2.2 Users’ Information Needs 3. The PWA User Interface 4. Methodology 4.1 Data collecting methods 4.2 Experiment # 1: Search logs 4.3 Experiment # 2: Interactive Questionnaire 4.4 Experiment # 3: Laboratory study 5. Results 6. Discussion and Conclusions 7. Acknowledgements 8. References Appendix A. Survey about the search of …