Archive What I See Now: Bringing Institutional Web Archiving Tools to the Individual Researcher

FAIN: HK-50181-14

Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Norfolk, VA 23508-0369)
Michele C. Weigle (Project Director: February 2014 to March 2018)
Liza Potts (Co Project Director: July 2014 to March 2018)
Michael L Nelson (Co Project Director: July 2014 to March 2018)

Further development of a toolset that would allow individual humanities researchers and institutions to easily archive websites and to navigate archived collections.

Archiving web pages is an essential method for ensuring ephemeral web resources are available for future research. Our goals are 1) to enable users to generate files suitable for use by large-scale archives with tools as simple as the “bookmarking” or “save page as” approaches that they already know, and 2) to enable users to access the archived resources in their browser. We propose to build three open-source tools to support this personal-scale web archiving: WARCreate, WAIL, and Mink.

Media Coverage

Archive What I See Now (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Rashad McDowell
Publication: Mace & Crown, ODU Student Newspaper
Date: 4/4/2014
Abstract: Luckily, there are people like Michele Weigle, Ph.D, and Michael Nelson, Ph.D. Together, Weigle and Nelson are working on a project that will add another layer of longevity to information stored on the web: the Archive What I See Now project.
URL: http://www.maceandcrown.com/2015/04/04/archive-see-now/

Associated Products

NEH ODH Project Directors' Meeting (Blog Post)
Title: NEH ODH Project Directors' Meeting
Author: Michele Weigle
Abstract: Trip report from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors' Meeting on Sep 15, 2014. We were invited based on our "Archive What I See Now" project being funded as a Digital Humanities Implementation Grant.
Date: 09/15/2014
Primary URL: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2014/09/2014-09-17-neh-odh-project-directors.html
Blog Title: 2014-09-17: NEH ODH Project Directors' Meeting
Website: ODU WS-DL Blog

Archive-It Partners Meeting 2014 (Blog Post)
Title: Archive-It Partners Meeting 2014
Author: Michele Weigle
Abstract: Trip report from the 2014 Archive-It Partners Meeting in Montgomery, AL. My talk was a quick update on several of our ongoing projects, funded by NEH Office of Digital Humanities and the Columbia University Libraries Web Archiving Incentives program.
Date: 11/18/2014
Primary URL: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2014/11/2014-11-20-archive-it-partners-meeting.html
Blog Title: 2014-11-20: Archive-It Partners Meeting 2014
Website: ODU WS-DL Blog

"Archive What I See Now" Project Funded by NEH Office of Digital Humanities (Blog Post)
Title: "Archive What I See Now" Project Funded by NEH Office of Digital Humanities
Author: Michele Weigle
Abstract: We are grateful for the continued support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and their Office of Digital Humanities for our "Archive What I See Now" project. This week, along with our collaborator Dr. Liza Potts from Michigan State, we were awarded a 3-year Digital Humanities Implementation Grant. We are excited to be one of the seven projects selected this year.
Date: 07/22/2014
Primary URL: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2014/07/2014-07-22-archive-what-i-see-now.html
Blog Title: 2014-07-22: "Archive What I See Now" Project Funded by NEH Office of Digital Humanities
Website: ODU WS-DL Blog

"Archive What I See Now" - lightning talk at NEH Project Directors' Meeting (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: "Archive What I See Now" - lightning talk at NEH Project Directors' Meeting
Abstract: 3 slide description of the project
Author: Michele Weigle
Date: 09/15/2014
Location: Washington, DC
Primary URL: http://www.slideshare.net/mweigle/2014-weigleneh

Tools for Managing the Past Web - presented at Archive-It Partners Meeting (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Tools for Managing the Past Web - presented at Archive-It Partners Meeting
Abstract: Summary of recent work from the WS-DL group, including an update on the Archive What I See Now project, funded by NEH
Author: Michele Weigle
Date: 11/18/2014
Location: Montgomery, AL
Primary URL: http://www.slideshare.net/mweigle/2014-weigleaitpublic

Tools For Managing the Past Web - presentation at ODU ECE Seminar (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Tools For Managing the Past Web - presentation at ODU ECE Seminar
Abstract: Overview of several projects in the WS-DL group, including the Archive What I See Now project, funded by NEH
Author: Michele Weigle
Date: 02/20/2015
Location: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Primary URL: http://www.slideshare.net/mweigle/2015-oduecetalk

Mink: Integrating the Live and Archived Web Viewing Experience Using Web Browsers and Memento (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Mink: Integrating the Live and Archived Web Viewing Experience Using Web Browsers and Memento
Author: Mat Kelly
Author: Michael L. Nelson
Author: Michele Weigle
Abstract: We describe Mink, a new web browser extension that pro- vides a different model for integration of the live and archived web. While a user browses the live web, Mink actively queries the archives and reports other instances of the page in the archives without requiring active querying by the user. Further, by querying the archives dynamically and asyn- chronously, a user can view the extent to which the currently viewed page on the live web has been archived and proactively submit a request to various archives using an overlay on the live web page and a simple interface.
Date: 09/09/2014
Primary URL: http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/pubs/jcdl-2014/jcdl-2014-kelly-mink.pdf
Primary URL Description: PDF of 2-page description of work
Secondary URL: http://www.slideshare.net/matkelly01/mink-integrating-the-live-and-archived-web-viewing-experience-using-web-browsers-and-memento
Secondary URL Description: Poster presented at the conference
Conference Name: IEEE/ACM Digital Preservation Conference

WAIL (Web Archiving Integration Layer) (Computer Program)
Title: WAIL (Web Archiving Integration Layer)
Author: Mat Kelly
Abstract: Web Archiving Integration Layer (WAIL) is a graphical user interface (GUI) atop multiple web archiving tools intended to be used as an easy way for anyone to preserve and replay web pages.
Year: 2013
Primary URL: http://matkelly.com/wail/
Primary URL Description: Main webpage
Secondary URL: https://github.com/machawk1/wail
Secondary URL Description: GitHub - source code
Access Model: open access
Programming Language/Platform: Python, JavaScript
Source Available?: Yes

WARCreate Google Chrome extension (Computer Program)
Title: WARCreate Google Chrome extension
Author: Mat Kelly
Abstract: WARCreate is a Google Chrome extension that allows a user to create a Web ARChive (WARC) file from any browseable webpage. The resulting files can then be used with other tools like the Internet Archive's open source Wayback Machine. The tool is an evolving product with the end result pushing toward being a personal web archiving solution for those that wish to securely archive their metadata in a standardize way.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://warcreate.com
Primary URL Description: Main webpage
Secondary URL: https://github.com/machawk1/warcreate
Secondary URL Description: Github - source code
Access Model: open access
Programming Language/Platform: JavaScript
Source Available?: Yes

Mink Google Chrome extension (Computer Program)
Title: Mink Google Chrome extension
Author: Mat Kelly
Abstract: Mink is a Google Chrome extension to indicate that a page a user is viewing on the live web has an archived copy and to give the user access to the copy. If no copies exist, the extension provides one-button access to preserve the page in a select set of web archives and to easily view the page once it has been preserved.
Year: 2013
Primary URL: https://github.com/machawk1/Mink
Primary URL Description: Github - source code
Secondary URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mink/jemoalkmipibchioofomhkgimhofbbem
Secondary URL Description: Chrome Web Store download link
Access Model: open access
Programming Language/Platform: JavaScript
Source Available?: Yes

Lipstick or Ham: Next Steps for WAIL (Blog Post)
Title: Lipstick or Ham: Next Steps for WAIL
Author: Mat Kelly
Abstract: Some time ago I created and deployed Web Archiving Integration Layer (frequently abbreviated as WAIL), an application that provides users pre-configured local instances of Heritrix and OpenWayback. This tool was originally created for the Personal Digital Archiving 2013 conference and has gone through a metamorphosis.
Date: 06/03/2016
Primary URL: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2016/06/2016-06-03-lipstick-or-ham-next-steps.html
Blog Title: 2016-06-03: Lipstick or Ham: Next Steps for WAIL
Website: Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Electric WAILs and Ham (Blog Post)
Title: Electric WAILs and Ham
Author: John Berlin
Abstract: WAIL has been completely revised from a Python application using modern Web technologies into an Electron application. Electron combines a Chromium (Chrome) browser with Node.js allowing for native desktop applications to be created using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Date: 02/13/2017
Primary URL: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2017/02/2017-02-13-electric-wails-and-ham.html
Blog Title: Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

WAIL-Electron (Computer Program)
Title: WAIL-Electron
Author: John Berlin
Abstract: Web Archiving Integration Layer (WAIL) is a graphical user interface (GUI) atop multiple web archiving tools intended to be used as an easy way for anyone to preserve and replay web pages. Tools included and accessible through the GUI are Heritrix 3.2.0 and PyWb 0.33.0.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: https://github.com/N0taN3rd/wail
Access Model: open access
Programming Language/Platform: Python
Source Available?: Yes

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