Extending Wail presentation at Archives Unleashed 2.0.

1. Are WAILs Electric?
John Berlin, Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle
Old Dominion University
{jberlin,mkelly,mln,mweigle}@cs.odu.edu
@johnaberlin
Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group
ws-dl.blogspot.com

2. Web Archiving Integration Layer
(WAIL)
• One stop archiving shop
– Packages: Heritrix, Wayback Machine,
Memgator
– Manages those dependencies
• Growing user base
– OSX primarily but Windows, Linux sparking
interest rapidly
• Making cross-platform
– A dependency juggling problem
– Must account for architecture idiosyncrasies
– Highly coupled code base(python)
– Python based UI breaks
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3. Electrifying Wail
• Electron
– Node.js and Chromium based
• Unifies cross-platform development
– Applications in HTML, JS, and CSS.
• Elegant UI(no more python ugliness)
• Decouples codebase
– Electron manages the Linux, Windows and OSX dependencies
– Mac App Store and Windows auto updater thrown in for free
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4. With Great Power Comes more
Features
• Parallel Linux,
Windows, OSX builds
and updates
• Easier to extend
• Interface with more
services
– Google Drive
– Public archives
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5. Here and Now
• Available via github: http://bit.ly/1Okf7Rx
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