Webrecorder: Web Archiving for All!
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Webrecorder is an open source platform designed for archiving and sharing web pages, catering to a diverse audience including journalists, researchers, and educators. It enables easy collection organization and offers customization options while ensuring user privacy and offline access to archives. The platform aims for sustainable growth through various revenue strategies while maintaining a fully free version.
Webrecorder: Web Archiving for All!
- 9. Organize and share collections Users can organize and share collection of captured web pages Journalists, researchers, teachers, students can show sources Artists and designers share their portfolios or gather resources to inform new work
- 10. Dragan Espenschied Preservation Director, Rhizome Ilya Kreymer Software Director Mark Beasley Senior Front-End Developer Pat Shiu Associate Director of Design Anna Perricci Associate Director, Strategic Partnerships John Berlin Senior Back-End Developer
- 11. Webrecorder, an open source platform allowing anyone to archive and share their view of the web.
- 12. Web archiving for all. Journalists Researchers Designers Educators Curators Archivists
- 14. A web archiving tool that handles difficult-to-capture content. To create archives that preserve the interactivity, properties and appearances of the webpages in a faithful way, archiving technology must keep up with the increasingly complex technologies that constitute the dynamic web.
- 16. An open source project. Anyone can fork / run their own instance of Webrecorder. ● Customize for your specific needs. ● Run your own instance. ● Fork and make contributions. We will offer subscriptions via Webrecorder.io, but free version will always be available. Leveraging common business models for open source software projects - charging for customizations, priority support, etc
- 17. Consciously designed to lower barriers to access. No technical expertise required to start archiving & sharing collections is easy No lock in All archives can be downloaded for personal storage and access offline
- 18. Any collections you create in Webrecorder belongs to you. You are free to download your collections and transfer or upload them to other web archives. View your collections locally, completely offline, using the Webrecorder Player. We do not ever sell your data and respect the privacy of our users.
- 20. A major strategic priority for webrecorder is sustainable growth. In order to ensure continued maintenance and free access, a variety of revenue generating projects and offerings are in webrecorder’s roadmap. These include subscription services, specialized consultation and support, and funded collaborations.
- 21. Webrecorder Supporters & Subscription Planning Supporters of Webrecorder receive benefits such as more storage space; then automated collecting and quality assurance tools by subscription later in 2019 Supporters: modest pricing for ‘soft ask’ and to set stage for advanced features to be offered at a premium Implement sustainability plan through a multi faceted strategy for income generation while still always maintaining a fully functional, free, open source version
- 22. Direct collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) on preconfigured (remote) web browsers to view web-based films Consulting to integrate Python Wayback (pywb) into major web archiving programs at the British Library and the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard University (Perma.cc) Leading research and development in web archiving
- 23. Facilitating access for all end users. Webrecorder used in at least 12 countries worldwide Documentation available in English and translated training materials in Spanish and French will be available in 2019. Building communities of users, providing, free trainings online, holding community calls, giving workshops and conference presentations. Constructing Community
- 24. Reach hundreds of librarians, archivists, teachers and students per year via conference presentations and workshops. Webinars for end users and instructors (train-the-trainer). Organized two major events on the significance and ethics of web archiving: the National Conference on Ethics and Archiving the Web (2018) and Digital Social Memory (2017). Events
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- #17: Who we are pt2 : How are we bringing web archiving to all? High-fidelity capture & high-fidelity reenactment Examples of exceptional content that we can capture and... Re-enact Open source >>[TO EITHER OMIT / FIND BETTER WAY TO PHASE THIS] Closest competitor charges ____ for ______ We offer subscriptions of _____ , but free version will always be there, and Anyone can always fork/run their own Emphasis on click-and-go / low barriers to entry No need for background in archival or library sciences, data science, regex etc…. Download your data, take it with you
- #18: Who we are pt2 : How are we bringing web archiving to all? High-fidelity capture & high-fidelity reenactment Examples of exceptional content that we can capture and... Re-enact Open source [TO EITHER OMIT / FIND BETTER WAY TO PHASE THIS] Closest competitor charges ____ for ______ We offer subscriptions of _____ , but free version will always be there, and Anyone can always fork/run their own >>Emphasis on click-and-go / low barriers to entry No need for background in archival or library sciences, data science, regex etc…. Download your data, take it with you
- #19: Who we are pt2 : How are we bringing web archiving to all? High-fidelity capture & high-fidelity reenactment Examples of exceptional content that we can capture and... Re-enact Open source [TO EITHER OMIT / FIND BETTER WAY TO PHASE THIS] Closest competitor charges ____ for ______ We offer subscriptions of _____ , but free version will always be there, and Anyone can always fork/run their own Emphasis on click-and-go / low barriers to entry No need for background in archival or library sciences, data science, regex etc…. >> Download your data, take it with you
- #20: Our Strategic Partners National Film Board Canada British Library New Museum Carnegie Hall New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) Stanford University Press If there is more space: Doc Now Perma.cc Strategic Priorities and Projected Growth ahead. [Optional – Typically a call to action goes here] If you are looking to…. then reach us at... Thank you