code4libbers,
Have you ever worked with Greenstone, the open-source collection hosting
solution Greenstone? Ever try to do anything more that superficial
customization of the interface?
Have you ever held your breath, waiting for someone's reaction when you
nonchalantly send a link to a
Hello All,
As our various digital collections increase we are starting to look more
seriously at long term storage. We have archival TIFFS, video recordings
and sound recordings. We have all these things digitized on servers but now
we are looking long term. What are you doing in the area of
hi code4lib,
if you're archiving web content, please use the WARC format.
thanks,
/st...@archive.org
WARC File Format Published as an International Standard
http://netpreserve.org/press/pr20090601.php
ISO 28500:2009 specifies the WARC file format:
* to store both the payload content and
Unfortunately, being an ISO standard, to obtain it costs 118 CHF (about
$110 USD). Hard to follow a standard you can't afford to read. Is there
an online version somewhere?
kc
st...@archive.org wrote:
hi code4lib,
if you're archiving web content, please use the WARC format.
thanks,
hi Karen,
understood.
the final draft of the spec is available here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4303719/WARC-ISO-28500-final-draft-v018-Zentveld-080618
and other (similar) versions here:
http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/warc/
/st...@archive.org
On 6/2/09 2:15 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
But you have to pay $200 for the document that lists changes from last draft
to first official version.
(Ok, Ok, it was just a joke. But you do get the point.)
- Original Message -
From: st...@archive.org st...@archive.org
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009
point well taken. :)
there were no significant changes to the WARC format
between the last draft and the published standard.
you can use Heritrix WARCReader, or WARC Tools warcvalidator
to verify that you have created a valid WARC in accordance
with the spec.
/st...@archive.org
On 6/2/09
This is a common problem with ISO standards, and the common solution
is to do just this: release the final draft before it's approved by
ISO as an official standard. That's what the ISO Forth programming
language group did as well.
- David
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:35 PM, st...@archive.org
[cross-posted to padiforum-l, dlf-announce, diglib,
digital-preservation, digipres, dspace-general, eprints-tech,
fedora-commons-users, and code4lib]
We're extending the deadline for receiving abstracts for iPRES 2009 to
June 12. See the website for more information:
