Collection:

Title	State and University Library Denmark - Web Archive Data
Description	220 TB of web archive content in ARC format
Licensing	This is a closed archive only accessible by danish researchers
Owner	SB
Dataset Location	Currently not available
Collection expert	Bjarne Andersen (SB)
Issues brainstorm	At some point within the next 2 years we will need to migrate the content from ARC to WARC. A crucial step in this migration is automatic QA to ensure that the migrated container has exactly the same content as the original. This is very important since we dont have budget to keep the original ARC-files. Several institutions have already done this (e.g. BL) - so tools most likely exist A general characterisation of web content is also needed to even begin talking about preservation of this kind of material.
List of Issues	IS12 ARC to WARC migration,IS25 Web Content Characterisation

Issue:

Title	IS12 ARC to WARC migration
Detailed description	Migration from ARC to WARC is desirable as the WARC archive is better suited for the future of web archiving.
Scalability Challenge	ARC and WARC are both container formats. At the present SB has around 200 TB of web content data that needs to be migrated.
Issue champion	Per Møldrup-Dalum (SB)
Other interested parties	During the IIPC Preservation Working Group meeting of 6-10-2011 this topic was discussed and the group was updated on Scape activities by Barbara Sierman and Sven Schlarb. The BNF is preparing the ARC-WARC migration and is creating a mapping between the two formats. If this issue is taken up, it will be interesting to contact the IIPC Preservation Working Group via Clement Oury (BNF) [email protected] who is the chair of the PWG. The BNF also created a JHOVE2 module for the ARC tool, and IIPC is asked to fund the development of a JHOVE2 module for the WARC tool. This combination might be interesting for the scenario (update by Barbara Sierman)
Possible Solution approaches	KEEPS: For format convertion the following tools are available: warc-tools (this tool was not selected in D10.1, because a license was missing, but that will problably change in D10.2) SB: Since we will never be able to afford to keep the old ARC-files we need to be very sure that the resulting WARCs correspond 100% to the original ARCs Thus: We need a QA tool that checks record by record that the content is the same
Context	TBD
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Training Needs
Datasets	State and University Library Denmark - Web Archive Data (not currently available to the project). ONB dataset
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WCT2 ARC to WARC migration

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