workplan.md

Web Archiving Workplan

Overview

This proposed workplan summarizes planned activities.

1. Identify sites and pages with artistic, technological, or historical value for potential capture

Identify sites that require manual capture with Webrecorder, and are more difficult to represent in tools like the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, wget, or Archive-IT.

1a. Assemble comprehensive inventory of all active and legacy Carnegie Hall-related sites

• Ask staff to help identify existing (or recently dead) sites of interest across departments, teams, projects, or initiatives
• Research and prioritize sites to capture
• Define the specific goal of each project capture
• Determine which sites are not represented adequately in the Wayback Machine, and require additional Webrecorder capture

2. Develop web archive capture cataloging process

2a. Solicit input and needs from colleagues at CH

2b. Review archival community engagement and recommended practices

2c. Create local rules for how to document capture details/notes, including the following project components:

• Narrative (collection scope per capture answering: what was original purpose of site? What did it achieve? Who was it used by? Why was it developed/maintained? When/why is was removed or retired?)
• Script (describes steps of capture)
• WARC (capture of site, in Webrecorder, local copy in Archives storage)

3. Capture and describe web resources

Department requesting a site to be captured will lead the capture, with support from Archives, and create the Narrative and Script components.

4. Maintain and make web archives available for access

4a. Through Webrecorder.io

4b. Review options for representing captures in existing Digital Collections system