WARC revision 1.1 (clarification): scope of the standard

iipc / warc-specifications

Centralised repository for WARC usage specifications.

http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/

100 stars 30 forks source link

WARC revision 1.1 (clarification): scope of the standard #8

Closed cleymour closed 6 years ago

cleymour commented 9 years ago

Definition: the introduction and the scope of the standard mostly acknowledges use cases related to web archiving. However, some institutions are using WARC format to store other kinds of digital content.

Decision: the introduction and the scope should state more precisely that WARC originated from web archiving community but should also acknowledge its use in other communities.

Action: Clément Oury to propose a formulation.

cleymour commented 9 years ago

Proposal to rewrite the 5th paragraph of the introduction section: "The WARC format offers a standard way to structure, manage and store billions of resources collected from the web and elsewhere. It is used to build applications for harvesting, managing, accessing, mining and exchanging content. While it represents the unique standard format for web archives, it has been adopted beyond the web archiving community, notably to store born-digital or digitized books and serials. The way WARC files will be created and resources stored and rendered will depend on software and applications implementations".

kris-sigur commented 9 years ago

@cleymour Might I suggest not closing an issue until the necessary text changes have been made to the working 1.1 document. I've created a pull request (#26) for the changes you proposed.

cleymour commented 9 years ago

Thank you Kristin. I'm not used to GitHub... I have two remarks on my own proposal:

I added the notion of "mining" web archives
I removed the reference to Heritrix as it is generally better for an ISO standard not to quote any implementation (to stay as neutral as possible)

saraaubry commented 9 years ago

The following paragraph has been integrated in the revised ISO draft during the ISO working group meeting on November 16-17, 2015 : Proposal to rewrite the 5th paragraph of the introduction section: "The WARC format offers a standard way to structure, manage and store billions of resources collected from the web and elsewhere. It is used to build applications for harvesting, managing, accessing, mining and exchanging content. While it represents the unique standard format for web archives, it has been adopted beyond the web archiving community to store born-digital or digitized materials. The way WARC files will be created and resources stored and rendered will depend on software and applications implementations".

saraaubry commented 6 years ago

Included in WARC 1.1