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Resources

Information, terminology, and resources for archiving and preserving the web.

What Is Web Archiving?

Learn more about web archiving, why it matters, and how Webrecorder tools empower people across the globe.

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

View more Webrecorder webinars and presentations on our YouTube Channel.

First slide of the deck for our workshop titled 'How to Develop A Browsertrix Behavior (IIPC WAC 2025 Workshop)'

How to Develop A Browsertrix Behavior (IIPC WAC 2025 Workshop)

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

Academic Publications

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

Memory in Uncertainty: Web Preservation in the Polycrisis

Press and Mentions

Schomburg Center Web Archives: Web Archiving Tools and Resources

New York Public Library

IIPC General Assembly & Web Archiving Conference 2025

Thom Vaughan — Common Crawl Blog

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

Web Archive Collection Zipped

Sustainability of Digital Formats: Planning for Library of Congress Collections — Library of Congress

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

Symmetrical Web Archiving with Webrecorder, a Browser-based Tool for Digital Social Memory. An Interview with Ilya Kreymer

Morgan McKeehan — The National Digital Stewardship Residency New York