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(Web) Archiving
Online Media
Nicholas Taylor
Web Archiving Service Manager
Digital Library Systems and Services
Stanford Media Group
December 10, 2014
overview
• services for media
archiving
• web archiving use case
• web archiving mechanics
• technical challenges
• approaches for online
media archiving
“LAX on take off” by Doug under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
MEDIA ARCHIVING
Services for
SUL media archiving
services
• analog and digital
reformatting
• long-term preservation
• discovery and
referenceabilty
• access interfaces and
research tools
scope
• broad range of library
collections
– institutional legacy
– creative works
– oral histories, documentary
– research outputs
– lectures, events
– broadcasts and podcasts
– rare commercial works
SUL media archiving
services scope
• broad range of library
collections
– institutional legacy
– creative works
– oral histories, documentary
– research outputs
– lectures, events
– broadcasts and podcasts
– rare commercial works
• analog and digital
reformatting
• long-term preservation
• discovery and
referenceabilty
• access interfaces and
research tools
SUL web archiving
services
• one-time and repeating
collection
• long-term preservation
• discovery and
referenceabilty
• access interfaces and
research tools
scope
• select SU sub-sites
– institutional legacy
– compliance
– scholarly outputs
• third-party content
– government information
– scholarly inputs
SUL web archiving
services
• one-time and repeating
collection
• long-term preservation
• discovery and
referenceabilty
• access interfaces and
research tools
scope
• select SU sub-sites
– institutional legacy
– compliance
– scholarly outputs
• third-party content
– government information
– scholarly inputs
USE CASE
Web Archiving
web archiving not always best approach
FAS: “Congressional Research Service Reports - Space Policy”
MECHANICS
Web Archiving
web page composed of files
Constituent Files
Web Page
collect and store w/ metadata
Constituent Files
Collect Data
Web Page
Web Archives
repeat over time
Constituent Files
Collect Data
Web Page
Web Archives
make accessible via SWAP
Constituent Files
Collect Data
Stanford Web
Archive Portal
Index Data
Web Page
Web Archives
make accessible via SWAP
Stanford University Libraries: “Stanford Web Archive Portal”
TECHNICAL CHALLENGES
Web Archiving Online Media
easy: linked video files
TED: “TED | Talks”
hard: streaming video
YouTube: “Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy)”
hard: streaming video
YouTube: “Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy)”
capture challenges
• obfuscated or short-
lived links
• ties up crawler,
harming crawl quality
• hard to delimit scope
• few objects, big data
volume
“I have the light in my hands” by Ashley Campbell under CC BY 2.0
replay challenges
• relating capture
context
• re-inserting
embeddable players
• platform-specific
engineering
“G. She told me to look at the light.” by John Twohig under CC BY-NC 2.0
ONLINE MEDIA ARCHIVING
Approaches for
mix-and-match approaches
media archiving
none
master
derivatives
web archiving
none
exclude derivatives only
low-resolution version only
highest-resolution version
best effort
archiving approach considerations
• technical affordances
• cost and budget
• formats of extant
media
• nature of work
• what else?
“A bit on the left...” by Federhirn under CC BY-NC 2.0
thank you!
“stanford dish at sunset” by Dan under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Nicholas Taylor
ntay@stanford.edu
Josh Schneider
Assistant University Archivist
Stanford University
University Archives Use Cases
•Media Only
Stanford Technology Ventures
Program
• Entrepreneurship Corner
Describing Digital Audio And Video
Content for the SDR
Preparing Digital Audio And Video
Content for the SDR
Daniel Hartwig
dhartwig@stanford.edu
Josh Schneider
josh.schneider@stanford.edu
Contact the University Archives
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