Tools Flashcards

Question

# What is important about... **Twitter**

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A useful way for those in digital preservation to connect with the community. An active forum with lots of branches out to other resources.

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* A portal, search engine, and API that connects metadata about content at Australian GLAM institutions. * TROVE makes this information findable. * Trove is a collaboration between National Library, Australia's State and Territory libraries.

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* A technical registry that describes tools useful for long term digital preservation. * Acts primarily as a finding and evaluation tool to help practitioners find the tools they need to preserve digital data. * COPTR collates this knowledge in one place instead of organisations competing against each other with their own registries.

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* 'Twitter’ archiving (twarc) is a command line tool and Python library for archiving Twitter JSON data. * Each tweet is represented as a JSON object that is exactly what was returned from the Twitter API. * In addition to letting you collect tweets Twarc can also help you collect data on users, and trends.

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* Also known as ISO 28500:2009. * A standardised file format for storing the result of a web crawl – the output of a web archiving effort. * WARC files many aggregate WARC records. * WARC can encode any other file format – as you’d expect of any potential digital object on the web.

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A search engine, and API for the archived web. Hosted by the Internet Archive, based in San Francisco.

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A standard for accessing and interacting with various web archives across the globe. Based on existing internet standards and the capabilities of the Wayback Machine.

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A search engine for the UK web archive at the British Library that enables both trend analysis, and content search and retrieval.

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An extended self-assessment process based on standard DIN31644 recognizing the trustworthiness of a digital archive. If a nestor assessment yields a positive result they are entitled to publicise this by using the nestor Seal for Trustworthy Digital Archives.

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An assessment which determines how close a digital archive is to passing the benchmark for a Trusted Digital Repository (TDR). AVPreserve are one of the companies offering this service.

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A method of packaging files and information about them for transferring across a network and into storage - a 'bag'. Bags can potentially be used as submission ingest packages (SIPs) in a digital repository.

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The UK Web Archive is hosted by the British Library and supported by a number of partners in the UK. Part of the collection is searchable and can be found online. Web archives collected under legal deposit law in the UK have their access restricted to various reading rooms in the UK.

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The web archive of UK government maintained by The National Archives UK. The archive is an exemplar of why we archive the web, and good case-studies appear, for example, during a machinery of government change. The UK Government Web Archive also archives UK Government Twitter feeds.

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A set of open source tutorials and lessons available on [GitHub](https://github.com/LibraryCarpentry) to help teach librarians and archivists digital literacy skills required in this era.

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* The Library of Congress blog whose basic intent is to discuss digital stewardship. * The blog covers other aspects of computer technology, most especially management, transmission and use of data. * It covers new developments that have an impact on digital preservation and access. * Contributors come from across the archives and digital preservation community.

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A blog hosted by the Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) that invites free and open discussion of digital preservation issues and the tools we use in the community. The blog has a low-barrier to authoring and is free to sign-up to; as such it has a wide and varied range of contributors, and blogs to read through.

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Heritrix is a web crawler created by the Internet Archive and was designed purposely for web archiving. The last stable release of Heritrix was in 2014.

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GNU Wget is a free utility for downloading files from the web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies. Wget is useful for scripting the download of files on the web via shell scripting tools such as Bash.

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The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (***OAI-PMH***) is a protocol for exposing to the outside world what is held inside a digital repository, and has numerous applications such as enabling the transmission of metadata about items for an archival catalogue.

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Hex (Hexadecimal) editor, e.g. HxD, are tools for representing the binary content of a file in hexadecimal form, usually in contiguous rows of bytes. A hex editor is often split into two view panes. The left pane showing the hexadecimal form of the binary content of a file. The right, showing the characters that can be rendered using the ASCII encoding scheme, or another scheme supported by the tool such as EBCDIC. Hex editors are impotant tools for developing file format signatures.

Tools Flashcards

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