Archive What I See Now

FAIN: HD-51670-13

Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Norfolk, VA 23508-0369)
Michele C. Weigle (Project Director: October 2012 to April 2015)

The development of an open-source tool that would allow web browsers to digitally archive a web page or series of pages as they appear at a particular point in time, using as case studies web resources that address humanities themes such as religious history and political dialog.

The web has become a repository for much of our social culture. Thus, humanities scholars have recognized the need for archiving web objects to support their research. We propose to build an open-source tool to support this personal-scale web archiving. We will build a Firefox add-on to create an archive of a web page or web site from the perspective of the browser. This means that web pages requiring authentication, pages on social media sites, and pages displayed after some user interaction can all be archived in the standard Web ARChive (WARC) format. This tool will provide easy access to web archiving and give users the ability to "archive what I see now." The tool will also allow users to upload generated WARC files to a specified server for later access. With this tool, collaborating scholars could upload their WARCs to a common server to create special-purpose collections of various topics. These collections could then be accessed by standard web archive tools.

Associated Products

2013-07-10: WARCreate and WAIL: WARC, Wayback and Heritrix Made Easy (Blog Post)
Title: 2013-07-10: WARCreate and WAIL: WARC, Wayback and Heritrix Made Easy
Author: Mat Kelly
Abstract: WARCreate - a Google Chrome extension that allows you to create WARC files from any webpage Web Archiving Integration Layer (WAIL) - a re-packaged Wayback and Heritrix that aims to be "One-Click User Instigated Preservation" I had developed these two packages for JCDL2012 and PDA2013, respectively, with the former being given the Future Steward award from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) at Digital Preservation 2012.
Date: 07/10/2013
Primary URL: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2013/07/2013-07-10-warcreate-and-wail-warc.html

2013-10-11: Archive What I See Now (Blog Post)
Title: 2013-10-11: Archive What I See Now
Author: Michele Weigle
Abstract: Earlier this year, we were awarded an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant for our project "Archive What I See Now": Bringing Institutional Web Archiving Tools to the Individual Researcher. We were invited to attend the NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors' Meeting in early October, but due to the government shutdown, the meeting was cancelled. Here I'll give the quick overview of the project that I'd planned for that meeting.
Date: 10/11/13
Primary URL: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2013/10/2013-10-11-archive-what-i-see-now.html

WARCreate and WAIL: WARC, Wayback, and Heritrix Made Easy (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: WARCreate and WAIL: WARC, Wayback, and Heritrix Made Easy
Abstract: Following up from the recent public release of WARCreate (see the announcement), I gave a presentation on another package I had created, Web Archiving Integration Layer (WAIL), originally unveiled at Personal Digital Archiving 2013 in February, WARCreate, and how all of the pieces fit together titled: WARCreate and WAIL: WARC, Wayback and Heritrix Made Easy.
Author: Mat Kelly
Date: 07/24/2013
Location: Digital Preservation 2013, Alexandria, VA
Primary URL: http://www.slideshare.net/matkelly01/digital-preservation-2013
Primary URL Description: Presentation slides

Archive What I See Now (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Archive What I See Now
Abstract: Presentation introduces the idea behind the "Archive What I See Now" project, including the WARCreate and WAIL tools.
Author: Mat Kelly
Date: 11/13/2013
Location: Archive-It Partners Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT
Primary URL: http://www.slideshare.net/matkelly01/archive-what-i-see-now-archiveit-partner-meeting-2013-2013
Primary URL Description: Slides from presentation

Tools for Managing the Past Web (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Tools for Managing the Past Web
Abstract: Presentation presents an update on our Archive What I See Now work along with other current research from the WS-DL group at ODU.
Author: Michele Weigle
Date: 11/18/2014
Location: Archive-It Partners Meeting, Montgomery, AL
Primary URL: http://www.slideshare.net/mweigle/2014-weigleaitpublic
Primary URL Description: Presentation slides

WARCreate Firefox Add-on (Computer Program)
Title: WARCreate Firefox Add-on
Author: Mat Kelly
Abstract: This software is the WARCreate Firefox add-on
Year: 2013
Primary URL: https://github.com/machawk1/ffwarcreate
Access Model: open access
Programming Language/Platform: JavaScript
Source Available?: Yes

---