The document describes a set of tools that make enterprise-level web archiving accessible for personal use. The tools include a crawler (Heritrix), a web archive player (Wayback Machine), and an archive inspector (WARC-Proxy) that are installed locally on a personal machine. The interface provides one-click options to set up crawls, view archived pages in the local Wayback installation, and check archive status. It aims to support personal web archiving through a graphical user interface that allows customizing crawls, starting/stopping services, and works with existing WARC files from other tools on Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems.

1. Making Enterprise-Level Archive Tools
Accessible for Personal Web Archiving
Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson
{mkelly,mweigle, mln}@cs.odu.edu
Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia USA
One-Click, User Instigated Preservation
• “Archive Now!” button sets up crawl, initiates crawl and
puts archive file in correct location to be indexed. • Once indexed, “View Archive” button shows all archives • Selecting the date in local Wayback displays the pre-
• Wayback consumption can be checked with “Check for URL in local Wayback. served webpage.
Archive Status” button.
Features Tools Installed Locally Interface for Tweaking Support
• Collection of Archiving Tools • CREATE ARCHIVES: Heritrix (Crawler) • GENERATED ARCHIVES ARE SAFE
Web ARChives (WARCs) reside on your hard
• Drag & Drop Installation And Removal • REPLAY ARCHIVES: Wayback Machine drive, can be backed up for safe keeping like
• All Tools Can Reside on a Single Machine • INSPECT ARCHIVES: WARC-Proxy any other file
• Managed Through a Graphical User Interface • More to Come! • CROSS PLATFORM
(GUI) Support for MacOS X, Windows and Linux
• WORKS WITH EXISTING WARCS
Advanced Options/Features Just drop in and local Wayback will index for
replay
• Specify Multiple URLs to be Included in the Crawl
• COMPATIBLE WITH OTHER
• Setup Crawls and Allow for Customization Prior to Execution (e.g., crawl period)
ARCHIVING TOOLS
• Start or Stop Services Not Currently Needed (e.g., initialize a long crawl but delay replay until later) Use the WARC-generating preservation tool
of your choice (e.g., WARCreate, Wget) in
lieu of Heritrix
PDA 2013; College Park, MD; February 21, 2013 http://matkelly.com/wail