building archivable websites
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Presentation for Stanford Drupal Camp on how and why to build archivable websites.TRANSCRIPT
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Building Archivable Websites
Nicholas TaylorWeb Archiving Service ManagerDigital Library Systems and Services
Drupal CampApril 19, 2014
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ARCHIVABLE WEBSITES?
Why Build
“Frosted Spiders' Web” by Jess Wood under CC BY 2.0
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future users are users, too
“a connection between past and future” by Gioia De Antoniis under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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maintain web usability
“Broken Web Connections? Welcome to 2009...” by Paul:Ritchie under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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improve temporal web usability
Internet Archive: “Wayback Machine”
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improve temporal web usability
Internet Archive: “Wayback Machine”
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refer to earlier website versions
“The Iraq War: Wikipedia Historiography” by STML under CC BY-SA 2.0
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institutional history
Internet Archive Wayback Machine: “Stanford University Homepage”
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websites are cultural artifacts
“The World Wide Web project”
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facilitate compliance
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optimize for other crawlers
“SEO on a railway platform” by superboreen under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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IMPROVE ARCHIVABILITY
How to
“metal web” by paul:74 under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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follow web standards and accessibility guidelines
“Web Standards Fortune Cookie” by Flickr user Matt Herzberger under CC BY-SA 2.0
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use a site map, transparent links, and contiguous
navigation
“Card sorting” by Flickr user Manchester Library under CC BY-SA 2.0
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maintain stable URLs andredirect when necessary
“San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge 1442a” by Flickr user Don Barrett under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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use semantically-meaningful URLs
“w63.w63.org”
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be careful w/ robot exclusion rules
“drupal/robots.txt at 7.x”
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minimize reliance on external assets necessary for
presentation
Internet Archive Wayback Machine: “Stanford Department of English”
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minimize reliance on external assets necessary for
presentation
“Stanford Department of English”
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serve reusable assets from a single, common location
Google Images: “stanford university seal site:stanford.edu”
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specify HTTP response headers for caching and
content encoding
“time capsule on Alcatraz” by Flickr user inajeep under CC BY 2.0
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embed metadata, especially character encoding
“Keep the Packaging!” by Flickr user davidd under CC BY 2.0
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use durable data formats
“Lascaux cave painting” by Flickr user Christine McIntosh under CC BY-ND 2.0
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prefer responsive design over user-agent personalization
“«Responsive web design» - 217/366” by Flickr user Roger Ferrer Ibáñez under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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examine your site in the Internet Archive Wayback
Machine
Internet Archive Wayback Machine: “Welcome to A Multidimensional Perception ~/*\= & PCGuru”
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TOOLS AND SERVICES
Web Archiving
“giant mechanical spider & crowd” by mjtmail (tiggy) under CC BY 2.0
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Heritrix
Wikimedia Commons: “File:Heritrix-screenshot.png”
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Wget
Wikimedia Commons: “File:Wget_1.13.4.png”
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Wayback
“Internet Archive Wayback Machine”