Web Archiving: Webrecorder Adds New Tools and Features in Latest Release

If you’ve never taken a look at Webrecorder we encourage you to take a look and try it out.

This free web archiving tool offers many useful features, is easy to use, and has become a research tool we use regularly.

From the Rhizome Blog:

What’s New:

• Curated lists can guide users to the most interesting pages in a collection, and with further description and per-page annotation, provide a path through what’s been collected. Especially when lists are displayed in the new sidebar (to the left of captured websites) they can make it much easier for users to browse a collection. As has been the case with collections, users can choose to keep their lists private or share them with the world.

• The main collection view has been redesigned to provide a cover page showcasing lists and descriptions as an easy entry point into collections.

• Webrecorder now features a newly designed table view with filtering options, making it quicker to find a specific URL (page) in your collection.

• Links into Webrecorder collections always contain a user-defined collection name instead of cryptic identifiers. Previously, this meant that if a collection was renamed, its URL would change and outside links would break. With this new release Webrecorder keeps track of renaming and forwards users to the correct new collection page.

• A new visual design with subtle contrasts ensures that the web materials in collections remain the focus of presentation.

See Also: Read the Complete Blog Post
See Also: Direct to Webrecorder User Guide
See Also: OldWeb.Today: Another Web Archiving Tool from Rhizome

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