Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

The National Symposium on Web Archiving Interoperability was held February 21-22, 2017 at The Internet Archive in San Francisco, CA.  The symposium was held as part of the IMLS - funded "WASAPI" project, which is researching "web archiving systems APIs".  The participants are Internet Archive’s Archive-It , Stanford University Libraries ( DLSS and LOCKSS ), University of North Texas , and Rutgers University .  There were nearly 50 attendees from a variety of international institutions. Jefferson Bailey and Nicholas Taylor began the day with a review of the WASAPI project: " Building API-Based Web Archiving Systems and Services ".   They also lead a discussion about soliciting usage scenarios and feedback from potential users (see the results from their 2016 survey ).  You can track the WASAPI developments at their github repo , where they have the WASAPI Data Transfer API General Specification (for the transfer of WARC files, WAT files, etc.)...