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WARC (file format)

WARC (file format)

File format

Not to be confused with ARC (file format) or WAR (file format).
For other uses, see Web archive (disambiguation).

The WARC (Web ARChive) archive format specifies a method for combining multiple digital resources into an aggregate archive file together with related information. The WARC format is a revision of the Internet Archive's ARC_IA File Format[4] that has traditionally been used to store "web crawls" as sequences of content blocks harvested from the World Wide Web. The WARC format generalizes the older format to better support the harvesting, access, and exchange needs of archiving organizations. Besides the primary content currently recorded, the revision accommodates related secondary content, such as assigned metadata, abbreviated duplicate detection events (see §7.6 "revisit"), and later-date transformations.[5] The WARC format is inspired by HTTP/1.0 streams, with a similar header and the use of CRLFs as delimiters, making it very conducive to crawler implementations.

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First specified in 2008,[6] WARC is now recognised by most national library systems as the standard to follow for web archiving.[7]

Software

References

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    "Information and documentation -- WARC file format". Retrieved 16 March 2018.
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    Arvidson, Allan; Kunze, John; Mohr, Gordon; Stack, Michael (5 July 2008). "The WARC File Format". IETF. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
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    Allegrezza, Stefano (21 April 2016). "Nuove prospettive per il Web archiving: Gli standard ISO 28500 (Formato WARC) e ISO/TR 14873 sulla qualità del Web archiving". Digitalia. 2015: 49–61.
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    Scrivano, Giuseppe (August 6, 2012). "GNU wget 1.14 released". GNU wget 1.14 released. Free Software Foundation, Inc. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
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