A Guide for Archiving Web Pages
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Pages in This Section
- What is web archiving- How is web archiving done?
- - Web page best practices
- - Assuring accessibility
- - Using style sheets
- - Using meta tags
- - - Dublin Core metadata
- - Using a CMS
- - Assuring content integrity
- - Using a snapshot tool
- - Using web archiving tools
- - Server maintenance
- - Backing up
- Documentation
Snapshot tools
A snapshot is the starting point for an ongoing web archiving program. Either manually or using a snapshot tool, the manager of a web site a copies the entire site, preserving its organization and all contents, and transmits the resulting files to the web archive servers. A snapshot is thus simply a faithful replication of the site as it existed at a particular point in time. Manual saving can be done within a web browser by invoking the save feature. Firefox and other browsers offer tools that make sure all contents are captured. Examples of popular file saving tools in Firefox include DownThemAll and ScrapBook. Tools created for web archiving also have snapshot capability as do most content management systems. There are lists of web archiving and file managing tools in the Resources section of the parent to this page . See Tools for archiving web pages and Tools for managing web pages.
Some resources on snapshot tools
- Snapshot (computer storage) from wikipedia.
- Software Listing: Capture Web Pages from a shareware site.
