Replacing a live site with a high-fidelity web archive mirror
You have your own web domain (a blog, a course website, etc..) but you (or your institution or your government!) don’t want to keep maintaining or updating the site, but you still want to keep a high-fidelity archived, fixed in time?
Web archiving allow us to create high-fidelity copies of entire websites. Web archive mirroring is a new approach to keep the site, exactly as it was (or as close as possible) on its original domain (or replacement domain), but powered by a web archive!
This presentation will cover new open source tooling from Webrecorder, which allows for creating statically hosted (and low-cost) mirrors entirely from web archives.
We will provide simple examples and also cover more sophisticated examples of multi-site mirrors such as the one hosted on https://govarchive.us/
Christina H: For more info on the value of archiving, see Pilot Irwin's blog post from Tuesday and the CTRL-S zine about it! https://reclaimopen.com/session/open-web-zines/
taylorjadin: Yeah good point @Christina H
the webrecorder tools are highlighted in that zine as well
taylorjadin: the archived mirror site: https://infiniteulysses.webrecorder.net/
taylorjadin: the github repo for it:
https://github.com/webrecorder/infinite-ulysses-replay
taylorjadin: the web archive site mirror template repo:
https://github.com/webrecorder/web-archive-site-mirror
Grant: Used Known exclusively for 3 years 2015-2018 to post to Twitter .. departed ways in 2018, but I wish I had archived it and stored a static copy at the subdomain #hindsight2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20180828194754/http://known.networkeffects.ca/profile/grantpotter
Pilot: Late to the conversation but I'm always excited for an archiving session. This is looking great
taylorjadin: the reclaim open archived mirror: reclaim-open.webrecorder.net
Pilot: @Christina @Taylor Thanks for mentioning the zine haha
Christina H: @Pilot it was really informative and made me want to attend this session! 🙂
taylorjadin: the govarchive.us stuff is amazing important work
Stephen Downes: Lost audio
Alexis Block: Wow, this is awesome! Especially in protecting history published on the net
Christina H: Such important work
Mark Corbett Wilson: @Taylor Check Discord. ;)
Grant: *Show me what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy looks like!*
taylorjadin: the gov archive replay repo:
https://github.com/webrecorder/govarchive-replay
cog Dog: @grant was glad i put Martin Hawkseys twitter archive. i have least text and dates if my stuff. https://tweets.cogdogblog.com
cog Dog: i have a make.com gixmo archiving my mastodon posts especially cause hiw crappy search is
cog Dog: late to session but eager to look at this
Christina H: So if I want to archive my own site from time to time, I could use the Archive Web tool and download to my computer?
Mark Corbett Wilson: This recording will be a great resource.
Grant: @cogdog .. did take an offline archive of my Twitterbits and converted to Markdown https://bavatuesdays.com/archiving-twitter .. but didn't put it all back online at my known.networkeffects.ca subdomain .. maybe later, but maybe *nah*
cog Dog: i have done a lot of static site archiving with Site Sucker app. Fun vacuum cleaner icon
Pilot: Recursive archival!
cog Dog: slickkkkkkkkk!
HibbittsDesign: Thanks for sharing this very valuable work!
Mark Corbett Wilson: Thanks to all!
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