A. Problems scoping content for crawl and capture

Refer to the sections below for descriptions of issues known to NYARC to negatively effect quality at the scoping phase, and for their respective recommended responses:

• • A1: Hosted Content

  • A2: Excessive undesired content

  • A3: Crawler traps

  • Blogs

  • Images, PDFs, and other 'static' media elements

  • Video

  • Web applications

Note that the above issues and improvement strategies reflect the experience of NYARC alone. They are not meant to represent a comprehensive inventory of web archiving community issues, nor necessarily of the strategies recommended by Archive-It.