[Air-l] archiving websites for later analysis

[Rachel Harris]

Hi Frank

Have you thought about using the Internet Archive? (See
http://www.archive.org/.) This claims to be "building a digital library of
Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper
library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and
the general public".  By inserting a particular url, you can see how the
site looked at particular dates, from about 1996, although these dates are
set by the archive. I'm not sure if this will provide the level of depth
into a website that you are looking for, but perhaps there may be more
flexiblity if you register.

I've also recently been recommended to try Net snippets
(http://www.4dev.com/ns/). "Net Snippets provides users for the first time
with tools to clip, annotate, edit and manage information found on the web".
May be useful depending on how extensive the sites you're looking at are. 

Regards
Rachel


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Dr Rachel A Harris
Scottish Centre for Research into On-Line Learning and Assessment
University of Glasgow
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Glasgow, G12 8QQ

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-----Original Message-----
From: air-l-admin at aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin at aoir.org]On Behalf Of
Frank Schaap
Sent: 26 September 2002 13:44
To: air-l at aoir.org
Subject: [Air-l] archiving websites for later analysis


I know this has been discussed here before, but I can't seem to find that
discussion anymore.

I'm analysing a relatively limited number of homepages and I'm looking for a
way to archive them to be able to later go back to the state I found them in
for analysis purposes.

Using the "save as" function of for instance IE isn't sufficient. Since
personal homepages aren't all that big usually, I want to archive the whole
site including underlying pages.

I have found WebCopier <http://www.maximumsoft.com/> and that seems to work
quite okay, but it still has some issues, for instance with iframes. It also
converts the directory structure of the site and sometimes it's important to
see how someone structures their site.

So, in other words, does anyone have any other recommendations? Dept. and IT
policies make that I'm looking for something that I can run locally on my
own machine...

TIA

Frank.
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