The Archives Unleashed Toolkit
The Archives Unleashed Toolkit is an open-source toolkit for analyzing web archives built around Apache Spark. This toolkit is part of the Archives Unleashed Project.
The toolkit grew out of a previous project called Warcbase. The following article provides a nice overview, much of which is still relevant:
- Jimmy Lin, Ian Milligan, Jeremy Wiebe, and Alice Zhou. Warcbase: Scalable Analytics Infrastructure for Exploring Web Archives. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 10(4), Article 22, 2017.
Getting Started
Easy
If you have Apache Spark ready to go, it's as easy as:
$ spark-shell --packages "io.archivesunleashed:aut:0.18.0"
A little less easy
You can download the latest release here and include it like so:
$ spark-shell --jars /path/to/aut-0.18.0-fatjar.jar"
Even less easy
Build it yourself as per the instructions below:
Clone the repo:
$ git clone http://github.com/archivesunleashed/aut.git
You can then build The Archives Unleashed Toolkit.
$ mvn clean install
For the impatient, to skip tests:
$ mvn clean install -DskipTests
I want to use Docker!
Ok! Take a quick spin with aut
with Docker.
Documentation! Or, how do I use this?
Once built or downloaded, you can follow the basic set of recipes and tutorials here.
License
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Acknowledgments
This work is primarily supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Other financial and in-kind support comes from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Compute Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Science, York University Libraries, Start Smart Labs, and the Faculty of Arts and David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the researchers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors.