Brass: A queueing manager for Warrick

Frank McCown, Amine Benjelloun, Michael L. Nelson · ODU Digital Commons (Old Dominion University) · 2007

When an individual loses their website and a backup can-not be found, they can download and run Warrick, a web-repository crawler which will recover their lost website by crawling the holdings of the Internet Archive and several search engine caches. Running Warrick locally requires some technical know-how, so we have created an on-line queueing system called Brass which simplifies the task of recovering lost websites. We discuss the technical aspects of recon-structing websites and the implementation of Brass. Our newly developed system allows anyone to recover a lost web-site with a few mouse clicks and allows us to track which websites the public is most interested in saving.

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