| Tool |
Pros |
Cons |
| CEP | - High degree of control over how individual websites are captured
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Individual logs, statistics, and reports to monitor websites
- Local control over storage and spider decisions
- Ability to examine crawl results outside of a browser
| - Long-term support reliant upon one person
- High degree of technical expertise needed to manage software
- Very limited access
- No search mechanism
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| Web Archives Workbench | - Ability to identify new domains
- Most sophisticated tool for metadata creation and website analysis
- Ability to easily integrate with existing OCLC services
- Support by OCLC and through the NDIIPP Partnership
| - No access mechanism
- Tool still very much under development, lots of bugs
- Difficulty capturing entire websites; easier to capture smaller portions
- Difficult to use interface
|
| Archive-It | - Well-developed access mechanism
- Ability to search sites
- Well-established institution leading effort
- Hosted solution provides technical support
| - Loss of control over spider parameters for individual websites
- Difficult to identify captured content except by browsing
- Although well-established, IA’s future is not guaranteed
- Fee of $10,000+/year
- Metadata under-utilized
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