Author: Rosalie Lack
WAS Service Update: June 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 release of new curator tools. Development and testing completed. Release date scheduled for the week of July 8. The curator features will include: ability to override robots.txt; new QA reports; additional metadata […]
Web Archiving Service (WAS) 2.0 Release of New Curator Tools
The web is ephemeral – sites are continually redesigned and updated. Pages and even sites can disappear overnight. The Web Archiving Service (WAS) provides curator tools for selecting, capturing, managing, and preserving web content and a public interface for the […]
Emory University Web Archives Now Online
The Emory University web archives include websites produced by Emory’s administrative offices, schools, departments, institutes, centers, and programs, as well as its faculty, student, and alumni organizations. The web archives created by Emory University Archives document Emory University’s evolving […]
UC Davis releases university web archives
UC Davis’s web archive of over 300 sites from the ucdavis.edu domain is now available for public access. This is a project of the UCD University Archives (started in 2011) to capture the websites of the University’s administration, schools and […]
WAS Service Update: May 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 release of new curator tools. We have decided to release the new curator tools ahead of the other features that were originally included in WAS 2.0 (i.e., migration to Solr and implementation of […]
UCLA Online Campaign Literature Web Archive is now available
In 2012, the UCLA Online Campaign Literature Archive team started using WAS to capture elections for local, state, and federal offices affecting the Los Angeles area, as well ballot measure websites from California state and local Los Angeles area […]
Five things I learned at IIPC
I recently attended the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly (http://netpreserve.org/general-assembly/2013/program). The IIPC is a consortium of libraries, academic institutions and other organization engaged in web archiving. The IIPC’s General Assembly included three days of member meetings and two days of […]
WAS Service Update: April 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS at Society of California Archivists (SCA), Berkeley, CA. April 11 – 13. The WAS team attended and staffed a booth. Rosalie Lack also gave a short presentation to the Online Archive of California […]
WAS Service Update: March 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Upgrade to Wayback 1.7. We upgraded the version of Wayback (the tool that is used to replay web crawls). This has resulted in increased general reliability, as well as improved display. End of Term […]
WAS Service Update: February 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 Release. Work continues on the release. SJSU Intern. Caitlin O’Neal López has joined our team, virtually, as an intern from San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science. (Caitlin currently […]