SIST ISO 28500:2009
Information and documentation - WARC file format
Information and documentation - WARC file format
ISO 28500:2009 specifies the WARC file format:
to store both the payload content and control information from mainstream Internet application layer protocols, such as the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Domain Name System (DNS), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP);
to store arbitrary metadata linked to other stored data (e.g. subject classifier, discovered language, encoding);
to support data compression and maintain data record integrity;
to store all control information from the harvesting protocol (e.g. request headers), not just response information;
to store the results of data transformations linked to other stored data;
to store a duplicate detection event linked to other stored data (to reduce storage in the presence of identical or substantially similar resources);
to be extended without disruption to existing functionality;
to support handling of overly long records by truncation or segmentation, where desired.
Information et documentation - Format de fichier WARC
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INTERNATIONAL ISO
STANDARD 28500
First edition
2009-05-15
Information and documentation — WARC
file format
Information et documentation — Format de fichier WARC
Reference number
©
ISO 2009
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Contents Page
Foreword. v
Introduction . vi
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 2
3.1 Terms and definitions. 2
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 2
4 File and record model. 3
5 Named fields. 5
5.1 General. 5
5.2 WARC-Record-ID (mandatory) . 6
5.3 Content-Length (mandatory) . 6
5.4 WARC-Date (mandatory). 6
5.5 WARC-Type (mandatory) . 6
5.6 Content-Type. 7
5.7 WARC-Concurrent-To. 7
5.8 WARC-Block-Digest. 8
5.9 WARC-Payload-Digest. 8
5.10 WARC-IP-Address. 8
5.11 WARC-Refers-To. 9
5.12 WARC-Target-URI . 9
5.13 WARC-Truncated . 9
5.14 WARC-Warcinfo-ID . 10
5.15 WARC-Filename . 10
5.16 WARC-Profile . 10
5.17 WARC-Identified-Payload-Type. 10
5.18 WARC-Segment-Number. 10
5.19 WARC-Segment-Origin-ID. 11
5.20 WARC-Segment-Total-Length . 11
6 WARC record types . 11
6.1 General. 11
6.2 'warcinfo'. 11
6.3 'response' . 12
6.4 'resource' . 13
6.5 'request' . 13
6.6 'metadata'. 14
6.7 'revisit'. 15
6.8 'conversion' . 16
6.9 'continuation'. 16
7 Record segmentation . 16
8 Registration of MIME media types application/warc and application/warc-fields . 17
8.1 General. 17
8.2 application/warc. 17
8.3 application/warc-fields . 18
9 WARC file name, size and compression . 18
Annex A (informative) Use cases for writing WARC records . 19
Annex B (informative) Examples of WARC records. 22
Annex C (informative) WARC file size and name recommendations . 26
Annex D (informative) Compression recommendations . 27
Bibliography . 28
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Foreword
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies
(ISO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through ISO
technical committees. Each member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been
established has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental and
non-governmental, in liaison with ISO, also take part in the work. ISO collaborates closely with the
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on all matters of electrotechnical standardization.
International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
The main task of technical committees is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards
adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an
International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights. ISO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
ISO 28500 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 46, Information and documentation, Subcommittee
SC 4, Technical interoperability.
Introduction
Websites and web pages emerge and disappear from the World Wide Web every day. For the past ten years,
memory storage organizations have tried to find the most appropriate ways to collect and keep track of this
vast quantity of important material using web-scale tools such as web crawlers. A web crawler is a program
that browses the web in an automated manner according to a set of policies; starting with a list of URLs, it
saves each page identified by a URL, finds all the hyperlinks in the page (e.g. links to other pages, images,
videos, scripting or style instructions, etc.), and adds them to the list of URLs to visit recursively. Storing and
managing the billions of saved web page objects itself presents a challenge.
At the same time, those same organizations have a rising need to archive large numbers of digital files not
necessarily captured from the web (e.g. entire series of electronic journals, or data generated by
environmental sensing equipment). A general requirement that appears to be emerging is for a container
format that permits one file simply and safely to carry a very large number of constituent data objects for the
purpose of storage, management, and exchange. Those data objects (or resources) need to be of unrestricted
type (including many binary types for audio, CAD, compressed files, etc.), but fortunately the container needs
only minimal knowledge of the nature of the objects.
The WARC (Web ARChive) file format offers a convention for concatenating multiple resource records (data
objects), each consisting of a set of simple text headers and an arbitrary data block into one long file. The
WARC format is an extension of the ARC file format (ARC) that has traditionally been used to store "web
crawls" as sequences of content blocks harvested from the World Wide Web. Each capture in an ARC file is
preceded by a one-line header that very briefly describes the harvested content and its length. This is directly
followed by the retrieval protocol response messages and content. The original ARC format file has been used
by the Internet Archive (IA) since 1996 for managing billions of objects, and by several national libraries.
The motivation to extend the ARC format arose from the discussion and experiences of the International
Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), whose members include the national libraries of Australia, Canada,
Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, The British Library (UK), The Library of Congress
(USA), and the Internet Archive (IA). The California Digital Library and the Los Alamos National Laboratory
also provided input on extending and generalizing the format.
The WARC format is expected to be a standard way to structure, manage and store billions of resources
collected from the web and elsewhere. It will be used to build applications for harvesting (such as the open
source Heritrix web crawler), managing, accessing, and exchanging content. The way WARC files will be
created and resources stored and rendered will depend on software and applications implementations.
Besides the primary content recorded in ARCs, the extended WARC format accommodates related secondary
content, such as assigned metadata, abbreviated duplicate detection events, later-date transformations, and
segmentation of large resources. The extension may also be useful for more general applications than web
archiving. To aid the development of tools that are backwards compatible, WARC content is clearly
distinguishable from pre-revision ARC content.
The WARC file format is made sufficiently different from the legacy ARC format files so that software tools can
unambiguously detect and correctly process both WARC and ARC records; given the large amount of existing
archiva
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
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Information and documentation - WARC file format
Information et documentation - Format de fichier WARC
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: ISO 28500:2009
ICS:
35.240.30 Uporabniške rešitve IT v IT applications in information,
informatiki, dokumentiranju in documentation and
založništvu publishing
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
INTERNATIONAL ISO
STANDARD 28500
First edition
2009-05-15
Information and documentation — WARC
file format
Information et documentation — Format de fichier WARC
Reference number
©
ISO 2009
PDF disclaimer
This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but
shall not be edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. In
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accepts no liability in this area.
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parameters were optimized for printing. Every care has been taken to ensure that the file is suitable for use by ISO member bodies. In
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© ISO 2009
All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means,
electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either ISO at the address below or
ISO's member body in the country of the requester.
ISO copyright office
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Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11
Fax + 41 22 749 09 47
E-mail copyright@iso.org
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Published in Switzerland
ii © ISO 2009 – All rights reserved
Contents Page
Foreword. v
Introduction . vi
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 2
3.1 Terms and definitions. 2
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 2
4 File and record model. 3
5 Named fields. 5
5.1 General. 5
5.2 WARC-Record-ID (mandatory) . 6
5.3 Content-Length (mandatory) . 6
5.4 WARC-Date (mandatory). 6
5.5 WARC-Type (mandatory) . 6
5.6 Content-Type. 7
5.7 WARC-Concurrent-To. 7
5.8 WARC-Block-Digest. 8
5.9 WARC-Payload-Digest. 8
5.10 WARC-IP-Address. 8
5.11 WARC-Refers-To. 9
5.12 WARC-Target-URI . 9
5.13 WARC-Truncated . 9
5.14 WARC-Warcinfo-ID . 10
5.15 WARC-Filename . 10
5.16 WARC-Profile . 10
5.17 WARC-Identified-Payload-Type. 10
5.18 WARC-Segment-Number. 10
5.19 WARC-Segment-Origin-ID. 11
5.20 WARC-Segment-Total-Length . 11
6 WARC record types . 11
6.1 General. 11
6.2 'warcinfo'. 11
6.3 'response' . 12
6.4 'resource' . 13
6.5 'request' . 13
6.6 'metadata'. 14
6.7 'revisit'. 15
6.8 'conversion' . 16
6.9 'continuation'. 16
7 Record segmentation . 16
8 Registration of MIME media types application/warc and application/warc-fields . 17
8.1 General. 17
8.2 application/warc. 17
8.3 application/warc-fields . 18
9 WARC file name, size and compression . 18
Annex A (informative) Use cases for writing WARC records . 19
Annex B (informative) Examples of WARC records. 22
Annex C (informative) WARC file size and name recommendations . 26
Annex D (informative) Compression recommendations . 27
Bibliography . 28
iv © ISO 2009 – All rights reserved
Foreword
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies
(ISO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through ISO
technical committees. Each member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been
established has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental and
non-governmental, in liaison with ISO, also take part in the work. ISO collaborates closely with the
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on all matters of electrotechnical standardization.
International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
The main task of technical committees is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards
adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an
International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights. ISO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
ISO 28500 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 46, Information and documentation, Subcommittee
SC 4, Technical interoperability.
Introduction
Websites and web pages emerge and disappear from the World Wide Web every day. For the past ten years,
memory storage organizations have tried to find the most appropriate ways to collect and keep track of this
vast quantity of important material using web-scale tools such as web crawlers. A web crawler is a program
that browses the web in an automated manner according to a set of policies; starting with a list of URLs, it
saves each page identified by a URL, finds all the hyperlinks in the page (e.g. links to other pages, images,
videos, scripting or style instructions, etc.), and adds them to the list of URLs to visit recursively. Storing and
managing the billions of saved web page objects itself presents a challenge.
At the same time, those same organizations have a rising need to archive large numbers of digital files not
necessarily captured from the web (e.g. entire series of electronic journals, or data generated by
environmental sensing equipment). A general requirement that appears to be emerging is for a container
format that permits one file simply and safely to carry a very large number of constituent data objects for the
purpose of storage, management, and exchange. Those data objects (or resources) need to be of unrestricted
type (including many binary types for audio, CAD, compressed files, etc.), but fortunately the container needs
only minimal knowledge of the nature of the objects.
The WARC (Web ARChive) file format offers a convention for concatenating multiple resource records (data
objects), each consisting of a set of simple text headers and an arbitrary data block into one long file. The
WARC format is an extension of the ARC file format (ARC) that has traditionally been used to store "web
crawls" as sequences of content blocks harvested from the World Wide Web. Each capture in an ARC file is
preceded by a one-line header that very briefly describes the harvested content and its length. This is directly
followed by the retrieval protocol response messages and content. The original ARC format file has been used
by the Internet Archive (IA) since 1996 for managing billions of objects, and by several national libraries.
The motivation to extend the ARC format arose from the discussion and experiences of the International
Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), whose members include the national libraries of Australia, Canada,
Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, The British Library (UK), The Library of Congress
(USA), and the Internet Archive (IA). The California Digital Library and the Los Alamos National Laboratory
also provided input on extending and generalizing the format.
The WARC format is expected to be a standard way to structure, manage and store billions of resources
collected from the web and elsewhere. It will be used to build applications for harvesting (such as the open
source Heritrix web crawler), managing, accessing, and exchanging content.
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