Web Archiving: National Film Board of Canada and Rhizome Collaborate to Enhance Emulated Browsers in Webrecorder

From Rhizome:

Today, Rhizome and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) are pleased to announce a growing technical collaboration on Webrecorder’s remote browser system to ensure sustained access to important interactive digital films and web-based artworks in the NFB’s collection.
A federal cultural agency within the portfolio of the Canadian Heritage Department, the NFB is a public producer and distributor of Canadian content. Webrecorder, a project of Rhizome, is an open source web archiving platform used to collect, store and share interactive captures of web pages.
The result of this partnership will be significant enhancements to Webrecorder such that it becomes an ideal tool for meeting the NFB’s needs as it works to preserve more than 100 interactive web-based productions in its collection. Through this project, Canada’s audiovisual legacy will be better preserved and safeguarded for generations to come, even in the midst of major changes in web technology such as the discontinuation of support for Adobe Flash Player, scheduled to occur in 2020.
All users of Webrecorder will be able to benefit from the enhancements made through this collaboration.
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The NFB’s collection of interactive works for the web can be viewed at nfb.ca/interactive.
The NFB will also be integrating web archives created with Webrecorder in its innovative, state-of-the-art Media Asset Management (MAM) system. Custom built in partnership with Atempo Digital Archive, the MAM manages the NFB’s massive digital-assets collection, comprising six Petabytes of content. The NFB/Rhizome collaboration will demonstrate how free, open source tools can be greatly improved through cooperative work and implemented to meet complex institutional needs such as those of the NFB.

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