The Web Curator Tool is a suite of tools and applications for managing the selective web harvesting process. It is typically used at national libraries and other collecting institutions to preserve online documentary heritage.
Unlike previous tools, it is enterprise-class software, and is designed for non-technical users like librarians. The software was developed jointly by the National Library of New Zealand and the British Library, and has been released as free software for the benefit of the international collecting community.
The primary source for WebCurator Tool documentation is the WebCurator documentation repository. This documentation covers the various components that interact and work with each other to complete the selective web harvesting process.
See individual git commits for code authorship. Issues are tracked through the git repository issue tracker.
© 2006 - 2018 The National Library of New Zealand, Koninklijke Bibliotheek and others. See individual commits to determine code authorship. Apache 2.0 License.
To build this site locally you first need to install Jekyll. The Ubuntu commands are:
- sudo apt install ruby-full build-essential zlib1g-dev
- sudo gem install jekyll bundler
From within your WebCuratorTool.github.io directory, use command
- bundle install
For other operating system instructions go to https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/. If you have problems installing the bundler you may need to check your gems directory permissions.
To build without starting the server, go to your WebCuratorTool.github.io directory and use command
- bundle exec jekyll build
To start the server locally, go to your WebCuratorTool.github.io directory and use command
- bundle exec jekyll serve
By default this site will be available on http://127.0.0.1:4000/.
This site uses the Minimal Mistakes Jekyll theme. Minimal Mistakes is a flexible two-column Jekyll theme, perfect for building personal sites, blogs, and portfolios. As the name implies, styling is purposely minimalistic to be enhanced and customized by you 😄.
Note: The theme uses the jekyll-include-cache plugin which will need to be installed in your Gemfile and added to the plugins array of _config.yml. Otherwise you'll encounter Unknown tag 'include_cached' errors at build.
