[Pasig-discuss] Archiving all flash websites

[Chad Nelson]

Warren,

There was a fascinating talk at the most recent code4lib conference
specifically considering the preservation options for Flash based media,
and If I remember correctly, they had an Archivematica integration as part
of their workflow.

The description of the talk and the slides are at
http://2018.code4lib.org/talks/save-homestar-runner-preserving-flash-on-the-web

And the full livestream of the talk can be seen at
https://youtu.be/aciksz8fabQ?t=1h57m5s

Hope you find that useful,

Thanks
Chad

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Stefana Breitwieser <sbreitwieser at cca.qc.ca
> wrote:

> Hi Warren,
>
>
>
> I’d actually recommend using WebRecorder <https://webrecorder.io/> by
> Rhizome. It’s a free, very user-friendly tool that generally speaking does
> a great job capturing Flash. You can also store up to 5GB on their site
> with playback through the browser, which makes storage and access fairly
> straightforward. Alternately, you could also download the WARC (web
> archiving file) and manage it locally, and play it back using any number of
> web archive players, like the WebRecorder Player
> <https://github.com/webrecorder/webrecorderplayer-electron/releases/tag/v1.0.9>.
> (That said, I haven’t tested any local playback tools and can’t recommend
> any one in particular.) We use Archivematica, and though we’re not
> currently managing any WARCs locally, WARCs are a stable, widely-accepted
> preservation format and storage would more than likely be fine.
>
>
>
> This might be a better solution than using the Internet Archive and the
> Wayback Machine. (Their paid service, Archive-It <https://archive-it.org/>,
> is great but can be expensive.) You can request for a page to be crawled
> for free on the Wayback Machine <https://archive.org/web/> (see: “Save
> Page Now”), but there’s no quality assurance step to ensure that you get a
> good capture. Their free crawler has pretty mixed results with Flash, and
> to my knowledge, there’s no method to save files locally via the public
> interface.
>
>
>
> In short, I think WebRecorder can be a really great solution for
> small-scale web archives. It has a very low technical overhead for a very
> high quality capture, and will cost you only the time you spend on it.
>
>
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> Stefana
>
>
>
> *Stefana Breitwieser*
>
> Archiviste, Traitement des archives numériques
>
> Digital Processing Archivist
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> *Objet :* [Pasig-discuss] Archiving all flash websites
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> Hi everyone. We are looking at trying to preserve two of our online
> exhibits that are built in an all flash environment from 2005. Doing some
> research into this, it seems that the popular opinion is to try and get the
> internet archive to crawl it and keep it online for future use.
>
>
>
> I would like to know what others have done in this instance. Rebuilding
> the exhibits are out of the question as the budget for doing anything with
> these is exactly $0. We are, howeve,r doing a migration to
> AtoM/Archivematica so if anyone has any experience using those tools to
> preserve  the flash exhibits like ours, I would like to hear about that.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Warren Weber
>
> Manager, Information Technology Services
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> Corporate Services
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> Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan
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