Islandora Web ARChive Solution Pack

What is it?

The Islandora Web ARChive Solution Pack is yet another Islandora Solution Pack. This particular solution pack provides the necessary Fedora objects for persisting and disseminating web archive objects; warc files.

What does it do?

Currently, the SP allows a user to upload a warc with an associated MODS form. Once the object is deposited, the associated metadata is displayed along with a download link to the warc file.

You can check out an example here

Can I get the code?

Of course!

Todo?

If I am doing something obviously wrong, please let me know!

Immediate term:

  1. Incorporate Wayback integration for the DIP. I think this is the best disseminator for the warc files. However, I haven’t wrapped my head around how to programatically provide access to the warc files in the Wayback. I know that I will have two warc objects, an AIP warc and a DIP warc (Big thank you to @sbmarks for being a soundboard today!). Fedora will manage the AIP, and Wayback will manage the DIP. Do I iFrame the Wayback URI for the object, or link out to it?

  2. Drupal 7 module. Drupal 7 versions of Islandora Solution Packs should be on their way shortly – Next release I believe. The caveat to using the Drupal 6 version of this module is the mimetype support. It looks like the Drupal 6 api (file_get_mimetype) doesn’t pull the correct mimetype for warc file. I should get ‘application/warc’ but I am getting ‘application/octet-stream’ – the fallback default for the api.

Long term:

  1. Incorporate Islandora microservices. What I would really like to do is allow users to automate this entire process. Basically, just say this is a site I would like to archive. This is the frequency at which I would like it archived, with necessary wget options. This is the default metadata profile for it. Then grab the site, ingest it into Fedora, drop the DIP warc into Wayback, and make it all available.

  2. If you have any idea on how to do the above, or how to do it a better manner, please let me know!

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