Access Working Group

The Access Working Group will focus on initiatives, procedures and tools required to provide immediate access and to preserve the future access to Internet material in a Web archive. Focus areas include:

• Defining User Requirements to improve existing access tools such as the Open Source Wayback Machine (OSWM)
• Testing full text indexing with NutchWax
• Defining requirements for user authentication/authorization/access controls
• Best practices and sharing experiences with Web archive researchers and end users
• Access tools for the analysis of the content of the archived internet material
• Access tools for the analysis of the structure of the archived internet material
• Technology watch for innovative ways of accessing web archives