Web Archiving

Web Archiving

• International Internet Preservation Consortium. "Web Archiving."
• Niu, J. (March/April 2012). "An overview of web archiving." D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 8, 3/4.
• Pennock, M. (March 2013). "Web-archiving." DPC Technology Watch Report 13-01. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7207/twr13-01
• Stanford Libraries. Web Archiving.
• Web Archiving at Library of Congress

Web Archiving Metadata

• Dooley, J. (5 April 2017). "Best Practices for Web Archiving Metadata: Watch This Space!" OCLC.
• OCLC. (2018). Descriptive Metadata for Web Archiving
• Praetzellis, Maria. (2018). "Add, edit, and manage your metadata." Archive-It.

Web Crawling

• Castillo, C. (2004). Effective Web Crawling. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Chile.
• Clay, B. (2015). "Robots Exclusion Protocol Guide." Bruce Clay Inc., Global Marketing Solutions.
• Nemeslaki, András & Pocsarovszky, Károly. (2011). Web crawler research methodology. 
• NT, B. (18 September 2018). "Top 50 open source web crawlers for data mining." Big Data Made Simple.
• Olston, C. and Najork, M. (2010). "Web crawling." Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, Vol 4, No. 3. p. 175-246. DOI: 10.1561/1500000017

Web ARChive File Format

• Bibliothèque nationale de France. The WARC File Format (ISO 28500) - Information, Maintenance, Drafts
• International Internet Preservation Consortium. "The WARC Format 1.0"
• Internet Archive. "warc: Python library to work with ARC and WARC files"
• ISO (2006). Information and documentation — The WARC File Format
• Sustainability of Digital Formats: Planning for Library of Congress Collections: Web ARChive File Format

Other Resources

• Common Crawl: an organization with the goal of "democratizing access to web information by producing and maintaining an open repository of web crawl data that is universally accessible and analyzable."

• Library of Congress Guide to Creating Preservable Websites: Creating preservable websites increases how effectively and comprehensively those websites can be archived.

• Perma.cc: a registrar that provides persistent shortlinks for websites used for citation. Virginia Tech is a registrar. See the Perma.cc LibGuide for information on using this service. This service relies on web archived pages.
• WebCite: an archiving system for webreferences (web citations) to ensure that cited references in scholarly works are always accessible