Collection / Seed

Collection / Seed

represents the capture of a distinct URL. It also records the archive date, content type and archive length as well as the raw byte stream.

is made of disaggregated (coming from different hosts) WArc records and are usually 1 GB in size. This is an open source format developed by the Internet Archive and an ISO item (CD 28500). You can learn more about it here

The process of copying digital information from the web to a repository for storage and archival purposes.

A group of resources related by common ownership or a common theme, subject matter and/or domain. A web collection consists of one or more crawls that harvest a group of related URLs. Collections are managed and maintained by an organization or institution.

 

The number of documents/amount of data to be collected defined by the subscription level.

This is how the Archive-It team refers to a 24-hour block of active crawling as part of your subscription. In other words when the crawler embarks on its assigned daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly crawl per your instruction.

The rate at which you set your seeds to be crawled. The frequency is on a per seed basis and can be set to one time, twice daily, daily, weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, semiannual, or annual.