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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 |
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| List of Issues | IS12 ARC to WARC migration,IS25 Web Content Characterisation |
Issue:
| Title |
IS25 Web Content Characterisation |
| Detailed description |
The issue with web content is mainly the fact that web archive data is very heterogeneous. Depending on the policy of the institution, data contains text documents in all kinds of text encoding, html content loosely following different HTML specifications, audio and video files that were encoded with a variety of codecs, etc.. But in order to take any decisions in preservation, it is undispensable to have detailed information about the content in the web archive, especially those pieces of information that preservation tools depend on. It is not possible to perform a data migration without knowing exactly what kind of digital object is encountered in the collection and what are the logical and technical dependencies of the object. And it is not only necessary to identify the single objects contained in an ARC/WARC file, but also identify container formats, like packaged files or any other container formats. Video files, for example, are often available as so called wrapper formats, like AVI, where each, the audio and video stream, can be encoded using different codecs. Down to this level the content stream must be identified if the institutional policy would foresee to preserve all video and audio content contained in a web archive. Furthermore, the issue has two different aspects, one is the challenge to identify content that is already known. In this sense, the main goal of identification is to identify the content correctly. The second aspect is unknown content in the web archive which is measured by the coverage of identification tools, where coverage indicates the part of the content that can be identified. Coverage depends on reliability in the sense that a bad reliability can hide a bad coverage in case that many objects are incorrectly identified, but are actually unknown. The challenge regarding this second aspect is to reach a precise set of the unknown objects in order to be able to derive a plan dealing exactly with these objects. From a practical point of view, the challenge starts with the ARC/WARC file format that ONB and SB as the main stakeholders of this issue are using in their web archive. The Heritrix web crawler (https://webarchive.jira.com/wiki/display/Heritrix/Heritrix ) produces these files as a result of the web crawls. The business logic and implementation is accessible - Heritrix is available as a collaborative code project at Github: https://github.com/internetarchive/heritrix3, but it has been integrated in the the web crawler, not in web content preservation workflows. This leads to the subordinate issue of dealing with ARC/WARC files as the basis of web content preservation workflows. The last aspect of this issue is the fact that several tools are known to generally address these kinds of challenges, still integration of the tools provided by the work package PC.WP.1 must be ensured by integrating them into real life workflows. |
| Scalability Challenge |
Billions of objects, hundres of Tbytes |
| Issue champion | Bjarne Andersen (SB) Markus Raditsch (ONB) |
| Other interested parties |
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| Possible Solution approaches | 1. Make Taverna workflows work with ARC/WARC container 2. Test / expand format coverage of different existing tools |
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| Datasets | State and University Library Denmark - Web Archive Data Austrian National Library - Web Archive |
| Solutions | SO07 Develop Warc Unpacker SO11 The Tika characterisation Tool |
Evaluation
| Objectives | This is about automation and scaleability due to the vast amounts of data. Currently over 7 billion objects in Netarchive.dk |
| Success criteria | We will have a workflow that can characterize the content of a web archive within a reasonable time frame and with a reasonable correctness |
| Automatic measures | 1. Process 50.000 objects per node per hour 2. Identify 95% of the objects correctly |
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| Actual evaluations | links to acutual evaluations of this Issue/Scenario |
Solutions:
| Title | SO17 Web Archive Mime-Type detection workflow based on Droid and Apache Tika |
| Detailed description | An experimental workflow has been implemented using Taverna Workbench. Due to the large amount of local data to be processed, the workflow is using locally running tools (instead of webservices). The workflow input port expects a text file containing a list of file paths to ARC.GZ files. While the workflow is executed, the GZ and ARC files are unpacked and analyzed in parallel. The result of the workflow is a summary report of the Mime-Type distribution inside all the ARC.GZ files. Input of the workflow: ) A flat text file containing a list of ARC.GZ files to be analyzed. Output of the workflow: ) One report file per ARC.GZ file, containing all Mime-Types plus a count on them in CSV format. ) One report file over all processed ARC.GZ files containing a normalized Mime-Type distribution list in XLS format. The workflow exists in two versions: ) One using the TIFOWA tool (by ONB) utilizing the Apache TIKA 0.7 API. ) One using DROID 6.0.1 in command line mode. Rough workflow walkthrough: ) Read input list of ARC.GZ files ) Unpack each GZ to ARC ) Tool: unpack each ARC to a temporary folder (flagged with a “taskID”) ) Tool: run the characterization (TIKA or DROID) ) Cleanup the temporary files (per iteration) ) Tool: wait for all iterations to be completed and generate a summary report over all partial reports The summary output makes it easy to compare the results produced by the two different characterization core tools – if running on the same test set. All steps are running in parallel (e.g. ARC10 characterization is running while ARC30 is unpacking while ARC01 has already been deleted from the temporary file system) – except the creation of the summary report. Involved tools: unARC: A tool (by SB) to unpack ARC files. TIFOWA (using the TIKA API): TIFOWA (by ONB) is using the TIKA API for extracting meta data from the files contained in an folder structure. It is creating a list of all detected "Content-Type" tags with the total number of occurrences. It is presenting the output in a format which can be easily imported as CSV data for furter processing in a spreadsheet program. Embedded in the described Taverna work flow, the result is a bunch of files containing the "Content-Type" distribution list for each ARC file. DROID in command line mode: In an external tool plugin in Taverna WB, the DROID jar is called twice. First to add the folder to be analyzed to a temporary DROID profile. Then to create the DROID CSV report for that profile. Afterwards we need to run a small tool (“csv2tifowa” by ONB) to pick the data we need from the DROID CSV and create an output similar to the output format we are using in TIFOWA (to be able to use the same tool for creating the summary report in the next step). MergeTifowaReports: A tool (by ONB) to normalize the characterization output (e.g. “UTF 8” => “utf8”) and to create on XLS summary report from all the partial reports created during workflow processing. |
| Solution Champion |
Markus Raditsch (ONB) |
| Corresponding Issue(s) |
IS25 Web Content Characterisation |
| myExperiment Link |
Webarchive characterizer using Apache TIKA(TM) at myexperiment.org |
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