Archive-It User Guide

Getting Started

• Guide for new Archive-It users
• Archive-It Video Curriculum
• Known Web Archiving Challenges
• Live chat support
• What is web archiving?
• Support Ticket Submission

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Collections

• How seeds, documents, and collections work together
• Create and manage a collection
• Select Seed URLs
• Add, edit, and manage your metadata
• Add and edit collection information
• Add and Edit Seed Level Metadata

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Scoping

• How Archive-It crawlers determine scope
• Modify your collection or seed scope
• Assign and edit a "seed type"
• Adding Seed Level Scoping Rules in Bulk
• Identify and avoid crawler traps
• Limit your crawl

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Scoping crawls for specific types of sites

• Scoping guidance for specific types of sites
• Archiving TikTok
• Archiving ArcGIS
• Archiving Blogspot sites
• Archiving Facebook
• Archiving Flickr streams

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Archive-It software release notes

• Ongoing and future Archive-It development
• Archive-It 7.1 Release Notes
• Archive-It 7.0 Release Notes
• Archive-It 6.0 Release Notes
• Umbra Release Notes
• Archive-It 5.0 Release Notes

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Crawling

• Run, monitor, and save a test crawl
• Manually start test and one-time crawls
• Crawl new seeds immediately with InstaCrawl
• Schedule crawls
• Monitor crawls
• Resume a finished crawl

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Reviewing

• Reading your crawl report
• Read your crawl's seeds report
• Read your crawl's hosts report
• Read your crawl's file types report
• How to interpret crawl status codes
• Compare two separate crawls

Quality Assurance (QA)

• How to use the Wayback QA tool
• Quality Assurance Overview
• Modify scope and run patch crawls from your report
• Interpret Wayback URLs and messages
• Access to your archives in "Proxy Mode"
• Archive-It's Proxy Mode Toggle Add-On for Firefox

Access

• Access your account with the Archive-It Partner API
• Archive-It APIs and integrations
• Controlling access to your web archives
• Controlling the public visibility of specific metadata fields
• Browse and search on archive-it.org
• Google Analytics for your archive-it.org content

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Storage and preservation

• Request and download web archive derivatives with WASAPI
• Archive-It Storage and Preservation Policy
• WARC Naming Conventions
• Derivative Data Sets
• Partner Guide to Downloading Archive-It Data
• Find and download your WARC files with WASAPI

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Resources

• Archive-It System Status
• Free trial Archive-It accounts
• Troubleshooting browser issues
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Live Archive-It Training Sessions and Webinars
• Archive-It Office Hours

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