This session is facilitated by Ilya Kreymer
About this session
Participants will use latest Webrecorder tools to create their own web archives of whatever websites are important to them during the workshop. Users will be able to access/replay what they archive, assess issues with fidelity, and understand why certain websites are harder to archive then others.
Attendees will be presented with various options for storing and sharing web archives, including storing locally only for offline use, storing on a hosted service (webrecorder.io), and using peer-to-peer protocols such as DAT for sharing web archives. The basics of web archive data formats (WARC files) will be presented, and issues around web archive privacy and ethics will also be discussed, as well as various applications of web archives in aiding decentralization and improved access to the web.
Attendees will walk away from the workshop having archived some type of web data that is important to them.
Goals of this session
To teach participants about web archiving, demonstrate tools they can use on their own, and discuss issues, challenges and ethics around web archiving.
The Internet Archive and many national libraries crawl large swathes of the web, but they are necessarily incomplete. What if individuals could create their own small-scale, distributed archives of data and websites that are important to them? This session will provide hands on demonstration of one way to accomplish this.