2024-09-03 Statusmeeting

Agenda for the joint NetarchiveSuite teleconference 2024-09-03, 13:00-14:00.

Participants

  • BNF:  Auriane, Sara, Haja, Nola
  • ONB: Andreas, Antares
  • KB/DK - Copenhagen: Anders, Thomas, Stephen, Tue
  • KB/DK - Aarhus: Colin
  • BNE: José, Miguel, Eva
  • KB/Sweden: Peter, Pär

Update on NAS latest tests and developments

  • On BnF side: update of our Java version to 1.8.0_422 (July 2024) fixing lots of compatibility issues with TLS 1.3 + improvements on H3 HTML parser to take image different resolution into account. (data-lazy-srcset on img and source, ...)

Status of the production sites

Netarkivet

    • 3rd Broadcrawl 2024- step 2 - started
    • Browsertrix
      • Local Production-instance will be ready this week - the existing test-platform will be used as a staging platform 
      • Trying to see if we can support Webrecorder with subscription to ge textra crawling instance + support

      • 500K+ front pages harvested. 3.5 TB 8 days?
    • We participate in a broad national collection/metholodigal effort on climate change/debate and more. It´s called "More water in the system".  https://www.rigsarkivet.dk/nyheder/dokumentation-af-reaktioner-paa-klimaforandringer/
    • Crawl parallel with curl and Brave and comparing links to find holes in the NAS/Heritrix crawls.
    • IIPC WAC 2025 Oslo proposals? NAS?

BnF

We are still continuing the preparations for our 2024 broadcrawl, which includes both significant changes concerning the technical environment (new storage bay, new OS, diversion of the network hardware to another BnF site) and developments aiming to fix the 404 errors problem. This harvest will be launched in October.

The European and legislative elections harvests are now finished. They lasted 5 months, from March to July 2024, for a total size of 5.9 TB. Instagram harvests on the theme of the elections were also carried out between June and July for a total of 0.16 TB as well as Videos crawls for a total size of nearly 3 TB.

Finally, the Olympic Games harvest is still ongoing with a new stage crawl for the Paralympic Games. An Instagram harvest is also underway and a Video crawl should be launched after the end of the games.

ONB


BNE

The IT team has been working on the .es domain broadcrawl since June, which we expect to be finished in two weeks.

This month we are preparing a conference at the BNE with our collaborators from different preservation centres in Spain. On this day we will discuss different topics related to electronic legal deposit: collaboration, access, modification of legal deposit law, or data from web archive... This conference should lead to a partnership strategy for the coming years. 

KB-Sweden

Ongoing pass 2 of broad crawl, works well.

Have asked questions on how to handle network outage during crawl. Got some answers. Have some follow up questions.

Found problems with servers not accepting HTTP 1.0, see Slack Heritrix channel.

Have some problem with Pywb 2.8.3 (also in Slack, Pywb).

NAS meeting i Stockholm in March or in Norway 6-7 April, before IIPC meeting? (Olga suggestion.)

Next meetings

  • October 1st
  • November 5th
  • December 3rd
  • January 7th 2025

Any other business?

  • Question from Olga: do we want to have a NAS meeting in Oslo?
  • Question regarding the WAC Cfp: any interest in making a presentation (20 min) or a panel (60 min) on the NAS community. It fits with "Towards long-term sustainability and preservation of open source tools" and would be an opportunity to (re)present NAS+our activities to IIPC members. We'll be 18 years old in 2025 (wink)