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Webrecorder receives $1.3M open source development grant from the Filecoin Foundation
CompanyI’m really thrilled to announce that Webrecorder has received a two-year, $1.3M open source development grant from the Filecoin Foundation! The grant will support our mission of developing quality open source web archiving tools for all!
Launch of Open Collective and First Institutional Sponsor
CompanyWe are excited to announce the launch of Webrecorder's Open Collective page, and to welcome Rhizome as our first institutional sponsor through this platform
Improving browser-based web archiving with standards and design research
CompanyAfter 30 years, we see how much the web and its users have grown and evolved and web archiving — “the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web” must adapt technology, tools and workflows to evolve with it to ensure the access and use of these preserved collections in an archival format.
Webrecorder receives a grant for Design and Standardization of Browser-Based Web Archives
CompanyI'm excited to announce that Webrecorder has received a $100,000 Open Source Development Grant from the Filecoin Foundation to work on the standardization and design around the creation of browser-based web archives.
Webrecorder Website Update
CompanyThe Webrecorder site got a slight overhaul today, thanks to the work of UX Designer Thomas Walskaar and our generalist developer, Emma Dickson!
Lorena Ramírez-López joins Webrecorder as Community Manager
CompanyI'm excited to announce that Lorena Ramírez-López has joined Webrecorder team as a part-time community manager!
Emma Dickson joins Webrecorder as Generalist Developer
CompanyI'm excited to announce that the Webrecorder team has expanded, and that Emma Dickson has joined Webrecorder as a part-time Generalist Developer!
Supporting IIPC community in transitioning to Webrecorder pywb
CompanyI'm excited to announce an exciting new collaboration between Webrecorder and International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), a group of national, university and regional libraries and archives involved in web archiving all over the world. The IIPC will recommend the adoption of Webrecorder pywb, the core Python web archiving toolset developed by Webrecorder as the 'go to' web archive replay system.
A New Phase for Webrecorder Project, Conifer and ReplayWeb.page
CompanyToday, I’m excited to announce a new phase for the Webrecorder Project, and several major releases/updates. First, welcome to https://webrecorder.net/ - the new official site of the Webrecorder Project. Feel free to look around, and pardon the dust. This site will contain all news and updates from Webrecorder, and the tools page is being updated to maintain a current index of all Webrecorder software.