Web Archiving: A Brief Introduction
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The document is an introduction to web archiving by Sawood Alam, discussing its purpose, importance, and various challenges. It covers technical aspects and tools related to web archiving, while highlighting research opportunities in this field. The document also presents various archiving efforts and techniques to preserve digital content effectively.
Web Archiving: A Brief Introduction
- 1. Web Archiving A Brief Introduction Sawood Alam Department of Computer Science Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia - 23529 (USA)
- 2. About Me Sawood Alam Lexical Signature Web, Digital Library, Web Archiving, Ruby on Rails, PHP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ExtJS, Urdu, RTL and Linux. ● BTech, Jamia Millia Islamia, India, 2008 ● MSc, Old Dominion University, USA, 2013 ● PhD, Old Dominion University, USA, Current
- 3. She Calls Me Dad!
- 4. Agenda ● Archiving and Web archiving ● Purpose and importance ● Scope of the web archiving ● Issues and challenges ● Tools and techniques ● Memento: Time Travel for the Web ● Archive X-Ray ● Research opportunities in Web archiving ● Our WSDL Research Group
- 5. What is an Archive? ● Accumulation of historical records ● Long term storage and preservation ● Less frequently used ● Physical or digital
- 6. What is Web Archiving? ● Periodic snapshots of web pages ● Preserving important events on the Web ● Making archived content accessible
- 7. Why do We Care Archiving? Web contents decay rapidly! ● To preserve the history ● To tell a story ● For evidence ● For backup ● For personal satisfaction
- 8. Issues and Challenges ● Crawling ● Storage ● Retrieval ● Replay ● Accessibility ● Completeness ● Accuracy ● Credibility
- 9. Web Archiving Efforts ● Internet Archive ● Archive-It ● Wikipedia ● UK Web Archive ● Various national and non-profit archives ● Film, music and other multimedia archives ● Scholarly archives ● Personal archiving
- 10. Tools and Techniques ● Heritrix, PhantomJS, WGet, cURL ● OpenWayback, PyWB ● TimeTravel, MemGator ● CarbonDate, Warrick, Synchronicity ● Preserve Me! ● WARCreate,WAIL, Mink ● Browsertrix ● And many more...
- 11. Memento <http://example.com>; rel="original", <http://web.archive.org/web/20020120142510/http://example.com/>; rel="memento"; datetime="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 14:25:10 GMT", <http://web.archive.org/web/20020328012821/http://www.example.com/>; rel="memento"; datetime="Thu, 28 Mar 2002 01:28:21 GMT", <http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20020803080544/http://www.example.com/>; rel="memento"; datetime="Sat, 03 Aug 2002 08:05:44 GMT", <http://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20091213015014/http://www.example.com/>; rel="memento"; datetime="Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:50:14 GMT",
- 12. Archive X-Ray! ● How much of the Web is archived? ● Profiling various archive services ● Predicting what they contain ● Routing Memento aggregator queries
- 19. Long Tail of Archives
- 20. Archive Profile ● High-level summary of an archive ● Predicts presence of mementos ● Provides statistics about the holdings ● Small in size and publicly available ● Easy to update and partially patch ● Useful for Memento query routing and other things com,cnn)/ {“frequency”: 40, “spread”: 2} uk,co,bbc)/ {“frequency”: 20, “spread”: 1} com,usatoday)/ {“frequency”: 5, “spread”: 1}
- 21. Research Opportunities ● Information retrieval ● Information visualization ● Client and server side archiving ● Archiving dynamic content ● Distributed archiving ● Discovering alternate long term archiving techniques ● Predicting “Important” events on the Web and archiving them timely
- 22. Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group ws-dl.cs.odu.edu ws-dl.blogspot.com @WebSciDL github.com/oduwsdl flickr.com/photos/124419986@N07
- 28. Sawood Alam Department of Computer Science Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia - 23529 (USA) [email protected] [email protected] @ibnesayeed www.cs.odu.edu/~salam