2013-07-10: WARCreate and WAIL: WARC, Wayback and Heritrix Made Easy
As the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group, we regularly interact with end users as well as developers that are interested in digital preservation. One of our goals is to assist in making web preservation accessible to regular users instead of just power users. As computer scientists, this frequently means creating software. A few digital preservation software packages that were created by WS-DLers include: Because shrimp, that's why. Warrick - a utility for reconstructing (or recovering) a website using various archives and caches. Synchronicity - a Firefox extension that supports the user in rediscovering missing web pages mcurl - a command-line memento client and two that are dear to my heart: And other sea creatures WARCreate - a Google Chrome extension that allows you to create WARC files from any webpage Web Archiving Integration Layer (WAIL) - a re-packaged Wayback and Heritrix that aims to be "One-Click User Instigated Preservatio...