Directory of WARC Resources

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The WARC (Web ARChive) file format is a successor to the ARC format. Specifies a method for combining multiple digital resources into an aggregate archival file together with related information.

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• Common Crawl data set

  https://commoncrawl.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CRWL/About+the+Data+Set
  Description of the data set.

• Digital Preservation Coalition: Web-Archiving

  http://www.dpconline.org/component/docman/doc_download/865-dpctw13-01pdf
  Report intended for those with an interest in, or responsibility for, setting up a web archive, particularly new practitioners or senior managers wishing to develop a holistic understanding of the issues and options available.

• Example ARC and WARC files

  https://archive.org/details/ExampleArcAndWarcFiles
  Short examples of the ARC and WARC files that are generated by the Internet Archive's crawlers.

• Github: example-warc-java

  https://github.com/commoncrawl/example-warc-java
  Java and Clojure examples for processing Common Crawl WARC files.

• Github: pylibwarc

  https://github.com/odie5533/pylibwarc/
  A Python library for dealing with Web ARChive (WARC) files.

• Github: webarchive-commons

  https://github.com/iipc/webarchive-commons
  Common web archive utility code.

• International Internet Preservation Consortium: Tools and Software

  http://www.netpreserve.org/web-archiving/tools-and-software
  Perspectives of setting up a Web archiving chain, contains tools recommended and used by members of the IIPC.

• Internetarchive/warc

  https://github.com/internetarchive/warc
  Python library for reading and writing warc files and warc headers.

• The WARC Ecosystem

  http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=The_WARC_Ecosystem
  Wiki with resources about the WARC format and the tools that support it.

• The WARC File Format (ISO 28500)

  http://bibnum.bnf.fr/warc/
  Information, maintenance, drafts, hosted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

• WARC File Format Specifications

  http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/warc/
  Collection of a number of drafts prepared as the WARC format has developed.

• WARC Implementation Guidelines v.1

  http://www.netpreserve.org/resources/warc-implementation-guidelines-v1
  To gather advice and best practice to help institutions designing and creating WARC files for collection management, access, preservation, and interoperability with collections from different institutions.

• WARC, Web ARChive file format

  http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000236.shtml
  Format description, ISO 28500:2009. Used by archival institutions to store content harvested by web crawls, for example via use of the Heritrix harvesting tool.

• Web Archive Transformation (WAT) Specification, Utilities, and Usage Overview

  https://webarchive.jira.com/wiki/display/Iresearch/Web+Archive+Transformation+(WAT)+Specification,+Utilities,+and+Usage+Overview
  Utilities to extract metadata from WARC files and create data analysis reports. Terminology, using WAT and Pig for data analysis.

• Web Data Commons

  http://webdatacommons.org/
  The project extracts structured data from the Common Crawl and provides it for public download.

• Wget with WARC output

  http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wget_with_WARC_output
  About the development version of Wget which is capable to save WARC files.

• WSDK

  http://webarchivingbucket.com/wsdk/doc/
  A lightweight Erlang library to write Web Archiving software. Overview, requirements, quick start, tutorial, support services, bugs reports, license and third party libraries.

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