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Overall good to go. Just some language tweaks, and good on my end. |
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| |  | Beginner | The **[Archives Unleashed Cloud](/cloud)** is a web-based GUI front end for working with [**Archive-It**](https://archive-it.org) collections. Drawing on your Archive-It credentials, you can sync your collections, run basic analyses, and generate a standardized set of research derivatives: full text, network diagrams, and basic statistics on your collection. | This does not require technical skills. However, you need an **Archive-It** account. You can get this if you are an Archive-It subscriber, **or** if you connect with a librarian responsible for a collection they can generate you a guest account. | Librarians, and researchers who know a librarian with an Archive-It account! | |
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"standardized set of research derivatives: full text, network diagrams, and basic statistics on your collection" -- link that to derivatives documentation?
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| |  | Beginner | The **[Archives Unleashed Cloud](/cloud)** is a web-based GUI front end for working with [**Archive-It**](https://archive-it.org) collections. Drawing on your Archive-It credentials, you can sync your collections, run basic analyses, and generate a standardized set of research derivatives: full text, network diagrams, and basic statistics on your collection. | This does not require technical skills. However, you need an **Archive-It** account. You can get this if you are an Archive-It subscriber, **or** if you connect with a librarian responsible for a collection they can generate you a guest account. | Librarians, and researchers who know a librarian with an Archive-It account! | | ||
| |  | Beginner/Intermediate | The **[Archives Unleashed Notebooks](/notebooks)** are web-based Jupyter Notebooks that can help you work with the output of the Archives Unleashed Cloud. While they are a bit difficult to install, once you have them up and running you can use your web browser to work through interactive tutorials! Explore your data through rich visualizations! | You need to install the "dependencies" for the notebooks. While you can follow instructions, it does require running commands in your "command line." This requires an intermediate level of technical knowledge. We [recommend this tutorial](https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/intro-to-bash). | Researchers who want to explore their web archival collections. | |
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I guess with such positive feedback I will move out of review. We can always add the video later? |
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| |  | Beginner | The **[Archives Unleashed Cloud](/cloud)** is a web-based platform for working with [**Archive-It**](https://archive-it.org) collections. Drawing on your Archive-It credentials, you can sync your collections, run basic analyses, and generate a [standardized set of research derivatives: full text, network diagrams, and basic statistics on your collection](https://cloud.archivesunleashed.org/derivatives). | This does not require technical skills. However, you need an **Archive-It** account. You can get this if you are an Archive-It subscriber, **or** if you connect with a librarian responsible for a collection they can generate you a guest account. | Librarians, and researchers who know a librarian with an Archive-It account! | | ||
| |  | Beginner/Intermediate | The **[Archives Unleashed Notebooks](/notebooks)** are Jupyter Notebooks that can help you work with the output of the Archives Unleashed Cloud. Once you have them up and running you can use your web browser to work through interactive tutorials! Explore your data through rich visualizations! | You need to install the "dependencies" for the notebooks. While you can follow instructions, it does require running commands in your "command line." This requires an intermediate level of technical knowledge. We [recommend this tutorial](https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/intro-to-bash). | Researchers who want to explore their web archival collections. | | ||
| |  | Advanced | **[Warclight](/warclight)** is a search engine that lets users discover web archives. Think of it like the library catalogue meeting the WARC file! While it is easy to use, setting it up on your own collections requires an advanced level of knowledge. | You need a lot of WARCs that would benefit from this search engine. If you don't know what WARCs are, this is not the tool for you! | Librarians and archivists who have been collecting web archives and who want to enhance their discoverability. | |
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Just wondering if it would be useful to help ball park "a lot of WARCs"?
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Suggestion:
Librarians and archivists who have been collecting web archives and who want to enhance their discoverability. -->
Librarians and archivists who have been collecting web archives and want to enhance collection discoverability. -->
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Great, thanks @SamFritz! After reading this I think "a lot of WARCs" is misleading.. it really is just having WARCs, whether it's one or many.
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| |  | Beginner | The **[Archives Unleashed Cloud](/cloud)** is a web-based platform for working with [**Archive-It**](https://archive-it.org) collections. Drawing on your Archive-It credentials, you can sync your collections, run basic analyses, and generate a [standardized set of research derivatives: full text, network diagrams, and basic statistics on your collection](https://cloud.archivesunleashed.org/derivatives). | This does not require technical skills. However, you need an **Archive-It** account. You can get this if you are an Archive-It subscriber, **or** if you connect with a librarian responsible for a collection they can generate you a guest account. | Librarians, and researchers who know a librarian with an Archive-It account! | | ||
| |  | Beginner/Intermediate | The **[Archives Unleashed Notebooks](/notebooks)** are Jupyter Notebooks that can help you work with the output of the Archives Unleashed Cloud. Once you have them up and running you can use your web browser to work through interactive tutorials! Explore your data through rich visualizations! | You need to install the "dependencies" for the notebooks. While you can follow instructions, it does require running commands in your "command line." This requires an intermediate level of technical knowledge. We [recommend this tutorial](https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/intro-to-bash). | Researchers who want to explore their web archival collections. | | ||
| |  | Advanced | **[Warclight](/warclight)** is a search engine that lets users discover web archives. Think of it like the library catalogue meeting the WARC file! While it is easy to use, setting it up on your own collections requires an advanced level of knowledge. | You need a lot of WARCs that would benefit from this search engine. If you don't know what WARCs are, this is not the tool for you! | Librarians and archivists who have been collecting web archives and who want to enhance their discoverability. | | ||
| |  | Advanced | The **[Archives Unleashed Toolkit](/toolkit)** is an Apache Spark-based platform for analyzing web archives at scale. When you use the Archives Unleashed Cloud, you are using the Toolkit in the back end! As you can see from the documentation page, the Toolkit is very powerful. However, it is an advanced tool that requires a high-level of technical knowledge to use --- or at least, patience and effort. We do have a **hands-on walkthrough** [here](/aut/lesson) | You would need a lot of WARCs that would benefit from computationally exploring them at scale. | Researchers who want to explore their WARCs at scale, and who need more flexibility than the Cloud provides. | |
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suggestion:
Researchers who want to explore their WARCs at scale, and who need more flexibility than the Cloud provides. -->
Researchers who want to explore their WARCs at scale and need more flexibility than the Cloud provides.
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| | Tool | Skill | What it Does | What You Need | Ideal For | | ||
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| |  | Beginner | The **[Archives Unleashed Cloud](/cloud)** is a web-based platform for working with [**Archive-It**](https://archive-it.org) collections. Drawing on your Archive-It credentials, you can sync your collections, run basic analyses, and generate a [standardized set of research derivatives: full text, network diagrams, and basic statistics on your collection](https://cloud.archivesunleashed.org/derivatives). | This does not require technical skills. However, you need an **Archive-It** account. You can get this if you are an Archive-It subscriber, **or** if you connect with a librarian responsible for a collection they can generate you a guest account. | Librarians, and researchers who know a librarian with an Archive-It account! | | ||
| |  | Beginner/Intermediate | The **[Archives Unleashed Notebooks](/notebooks)** are Jupyter Notebooks that can help you work with the output of the Archives Unleashed Cloud. Once you have them up and running you can use your web browser to work through interactive tutorials! Explore your data through rich visualizations! | You need to install the "dependencies" for the notebooks. While you can follow instructions, it does require running commands in your "command line." This requires an intermediate level of technical knowledge. We [recommend this tutorial](https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/intro-to-bash). | Researchers who want to explore their web archival collections. | |
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"This requires an intermediate....." --> An intermediate level of technical knowledge is recommended. We suggest this tutorial
| |  | Advanced | **[Warclight](/warclight)** is a search engine that lets users discover web archives. Think of it like the library catalogue meeting the WARC file! While it is easy to use, setting it up on your own collections requires an advanced level of knowledge. | You need a lot of WARCs that would benefit from this search engine. If you don't know what WARCs are, this is not the tool for you! | Librarians and archivists who have been collecting web archives and who want to enhance their discoverability. | | ||
| |  | Advanced | The **[Archives Unleashed Toolkit](/toolkit)** is an Apache Spark-based platform for analyzing web archives at scale. When you use the Archives Unleashed Cloud, you are using the Toolkit in the back end! As you can see from the documentation page, the Toolkit is very powerful. However, it is an advanced tool that requires a high-level of technical knowledge to use --- or at least, patience and effort. We do have a **hands-on walkthrough** [here](/aut/lesson) | You would need a lot of WARCs that would benefit from computationally exploring them at scale. | Researchers who want to explore their WARCs at scale, and who need more flexibility than the Cloud provides. | | ||
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Getting started page looks great @ianmilligan1. Just added in a few suggestions for wording, please feel free to use any that you think are beneficial :) |
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ianmilligan1 commentedMay 3, 2019
As noted in #120, our website is a bit tough to get into. So here's a "getting started" page that basically provides a basic introduction to what our project is about. Right now, in this version, it adds:
We probably want to workshop specific language, so we can do so on this draft PR.
Example Screenshots of the Page
