[Air-L] the best way to archive web material?

Joe Williams jjwilliams at ualr.edu
Thu Oct 21 07:40:43 PDT 2010


Hi Sarah,

I have used wget successfully:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm (download)
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ (general website)
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/index.html (complete
manual docs.)


It is free and open source.  However, it does run from the command line,
which can be a factor for some people.

--Joe



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Joseph John Williams
Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing
University of Arkansas at Little Rock



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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Oates
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Subject: [Air-L] the best way to archive web material?

Hello and apologies if this has been asked recently or seems a bit basic! 
 
Does anyone have a recommendation for software to archive web material? I am
heading a project to study political activism on the Russian internet and we
need to store a range of different types of web pages across time ... I
can't even get my PC to store even a small amount with full images. My
research partner in Ukraine can, but she has a Mac (not an option available
at my university right now). I have a small budget to buy some software,
although freeware suggestions always appreciated. I want to have the archive
complete so that we can work with it, share it with other researchers, go
back to it as necessary, etc., so I really want to have full graphics etc.
Optimally, it would be something that could do automatic crawls and
downloads as well, although as we are tending to focus on relatively short
periods of intense interest around particularly issues/events, we don't need
a long-term crawl system. 
 
Suggestions from this clever and useful list most welcome, although
currently this list is making me sad that I am not in Sweden to meet people
at exciting venues and hear what I am sure is some great work (: 
 
Sincerely
Sarah 
 
Sarah Oates
Professor of Political Communication
School of Social and Political Sciences
Adam Smith Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8RT
 
Email: sarah.oates at glasgow.ac.uk
Website: www.media-politics.com <http://www.media-politics.com/> 
Telephone: (0)141 330 5124
The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401
 
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