Web Archiving Workflow

Web Archiving Presentation Oliver MattheussensOctober 16th, 2014

Wednesday, October 15, 14

New Web Archiving Research Guide is now available (private setting)


• What is Web Archiving and WAS?

• What projects are suitable for Web Archiving?

• If a librarian, faculty member or student is interested in doing a web archiving project, what are the steps you need to take?

Introduction to Web Archiving


What is Web Archiving?Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of

the World Wide Web to ensure the information is preserved for future researchers and the public.


The Web Archiving Service (WAS) was developed by the University of California Curation Center as a full-service archiving solution for libraries and institutions.

http://webarchives.cdlib.org/

WAS provides all the tools necessary to capture, manage, and preserve web content and give public access to collections of archived sites.

What is WAS?




http://webarchives.cdlib.org

http://webarchives.cdlib.org

You can use WAS in two ways: (1) to build your own archives (2) to access freely availablepublic archives built by UC

libraries and other institutions.


Is Web Archiving the best tool for your project?

Yes No

Collection of websites around the same topic

One or only a few sites

Content on websites is not prohibitively large

Website is over 10 GB

Information is available without having to login

Facebook, Twitter and other social media

Content falls within fair use

Content has copyright issues


The Web Archiving Research Guide helps UCLA Librarians, Faculty and Students to create Web Archiving projects in a step-by-step process:

• Develop a collection plan for your project

• Capture relevant websites

• Evaluate the captured content

• Describe the archived websites

• Publish the captured content


Step 1A UCLA faculty member, student or librarian is

interested in doing a web archiving project.


Step 2Make sure WAS is the best option

Yes No

Collection of websites around the same theme

One or only a few sites

Content on websites is not prohibitively large

Website is over 10 GB

Information is available without having to login

Facebook, Twitter and other social media

Content falls within fair use

Content has copyright issues


Step 3The faculty member or student and responsible librarian meet with OM

to work on the WAS Collection Plan Form.


Step 4The Collection Plan form is sent to Angela Riggio (who serves as WAS

Administrator for UCLA).

Step 5The WAS project is set up with a Project

Administrator (which can be a faculty member, student or librarian).


Step 6The Project Administrator receives training from OM

and runs test captures for the WAS project.


Step 7The Project Administrator and OM

go over the test captures.


Step 8The Project Administrator captures the

other websites with assistance from OM.


Step 9The Project

Administrator evaluates the captures (and

provides metadata).


Step 10The archived websites are published online

on WAS after an embargo of 6 months.


Workflow chart


Questions?


Web Archiving Workflow

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