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Resources

Guides, definitions, and sources for beginners and pros alike.

What Is Web Archiving?

A gentle introduction to web archiving for those new to the scene. Learn what web archiving is, why it’s important, and what it can do for you.

Glossary of Terms

A handy reference for commonly used language.

Webrecorder Forums

Questions and answers from the community

Get in touch with us directly

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Formats and Specifications

Web Archive Collection Zipped (WACZ) WACZ Signing and Verification Crawl Index JSON (CDXJ) Use Cases for Decentralized Web Archives IPFS Custom File Chunking for WARC and WACZ

Presentations

Web Archiving with Browsertrix

Introducing Browsertrix: General Overview

Machine-Assisted Quality Assurance in Browsertrix

WACZ: Portable Web Archives

Standardising the WACZ format

Old Web Today: Keeping Flash (and other) Retro Web Sites Accessible

Webrecorder: Web Archiving for All

Publications

High Fidelity Web Archiving of News Sites and New Media with Browsertrix

Memory in Uncertainty: Web Preservation in the Polycrisis

Press

Archiving Social Media with Browsertrix

Carlos Lelkes-Rarugal — UK Web Archive Blog

Saving The First Draft of History

Gabe Bullard — Nieman Reports

Mapping Black California Tracks California’s Efforts To Address Racism

Daniel Johnson — Black Enterprise

Ukraine Symposium – The Ukraine Conflict and the Future of Digital Cultural Property

Ronald Alcala — Lieber Institute

Meet the 1,300 librarians racing to back up Ukraine’s digital archives

Pranshu Verma — Washington Post

Signed, Sealed, Delivered…or Making, Stewarding, and Presenting Web Archives of Digital Publications: It Takes a Village

Jasmine Mulliken — Stanford University Press Blog