[Pasig-discuss] Archiving all flash websites

[Howard Besser]

That Talk was based on Jacob Zaborowski's MA Thesis: "SAVE HOMESTAR 
RUNNER!: Preserving Flash on the Web". Like all of our MA theses, it is 
available on the Web. The direct URL is
   https://www.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/program/student_work/2017spring/17s_Zaborowski_thesis_grading_copy.pdf
but Jacob is still working on last-minute edits.
Our index page for student work is at
   http://tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies/miap/student-work
And the theses are near the bottom (by year).
-howard


On Mon, 12 Mar 2018, Chad Nelson wrote:
> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>> Iÿÿd actually recommend using WebRecorder <https://webrecorder.io/> by
>> Rhizome. Itÿÿs 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 havenÿÿt tested any local playback tools and canÿÿt recommend
>> any one in particular.) We use Archivematica, and though weÿÿre 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: ÿÿSave
>> Page Nowÿÿ), but thereÿÿs 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, thereÿÿs 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
>>
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>>
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>>
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>> *À :* pasig-discuss at mail.asis.org
>> *Objet :* [Pasig-discuss] Archiving all flash websites
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Corporate Services
>>
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>>
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