| 1.1 | GA | 21 September 2006 | Release notes, known issues, and changelog |
The Web Curator Tool (WCT) is a tool for managing the selective web harvesting process. It is designed for use in libraries and other collecting organisations, and supports collection by non-technical users while still allowing complete control of the web harvesting process.
New features
- ReferenceNumber field for Target, Group and TargetInstance objects
- FileReference field for Permission objects
- Fields for recording Selection information in Target objects
- HarvestType field for Target objects
- Add a textbox labelled ?Name? to the Target Instance Search Form
- ProfileNote field for Target objects
- Basic descriptive (Dublin Core) metadata
- Type field for Group objects
- Sticky search forms: reset button needed [SF 1531646]
* Harvest Authorisation: seeking and recording permission to harvest web material, and to make it accessible to the general public.
* Selection and scoping: determining what material should be harvested, be it a
web site, a web page, a partial web site, a group (or collection) of web sites,
or any combination of these.
* Scheduling: determining when a harvest should occur, and when it should be
repeated.
* Description: describing harvests with basic Dublin Core metadata, and other
specialized fields (or a by a providing a reference to an external catalogue).
* Harvesting: the Web Curator Tool will download the selected web material at
the appointed time using the Internet Archive's Heritrix web crawler -- each
installation can have multiple harvesters on different machines, each which can
perform several harvests simultaneously.
* Quality Review: tools are provided for making sure the harvest worked as
expected, and correcting simple harvest errors.
* Endorsing and submitting: if the harvest was a success, it is endorsed then
submitted to an external digital archive.
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