web archive

Call it The GCDLADB if you like.

11 min read Sep 6, 2022
This blog post chronicles portions of a process used to restore and subsequently WARC (the creation of a web archive) a Communication Department website that had been retired. The website content of interest included material describing plans for the recently-completed HSSC and Administration Building projects. During the restoration and WARC process a .md document named WARC-from-comm.sites.grinnell.edu-clone.md was created and it’s contents are presented here. Creating a WARC from a Clone of comm.sites.grinnell.edu In July 2022 a new “clone” of the original comm. ...

Here There Be WARCs

8 min read Jun 17, 2020 Superseded by posts/126-creating-warc-from-a-wordpress-clone
The term WARC, an abbreviation of Web ARChive, always reminds me of things like hobbits, elves, dark lords, and orcs, of course. But this post has nothing to do with those things so I need to clear my head and press on. A WARC is essentially a file format used to capture the content and organization of a web site. Recently, I was asked to add a pair of WARCs to Digital.Grinnell. Doing so proved to be quite an adventure, but I am pleased to report that we now have these two objects to show for it: ...