Managing Collections & Seeds

Managing Collections

• How to create and manage a collection
• How to find your collection's unique ID number
• How to add external WARC or ARC files to Archive-It collections

Managing Seeds

• Select and add Seed URLs
• How to make changes to your seeds
• How seeds, documents, and collections work together
• Assign and edit a "seed type"
• Share seeds across collections

Organizing Seeds With Groups

• What are Groups?
• How to create, edit, or delete Groups
• How to add or remove seeds from a Group
• How to change the public visibility of a Group
• How to use Groups to share seeds between collections
• How to view a Group’s management page or Seed Groups list

FAQ: Collections

• How do I remove seeds from my public collection page?
• How do I add metadata to my seeds?
• Can I move seeds between collections?
• What is the difference between "active" and "inactive" seeds and collections?
• How do I change the crawl frequency of my seeds?
• How can I add more websites, or seeds, to my collection?

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