Hi Frank Have you thought about using the Internet Archive? (See http://www.archive.org/.) This claims to be "building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public". By inserting a particular url, you can see how the site looked at particular dates, from about 1996, although these dates are set by the archive. I'm not sure if this will provide the level of depth into a website that you are looking for, but perhaps there may be more flexiblity if you register. I've also recently been recommended to try Net snippets (http://www.4dev.com/ns/). "Net Snippets provides users for the first time with tools to clip, annotate, edit and manage information found on the web". May be useful depending on how extensive the sites you're looking at are. Regards Rachel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Rachel A Harris Scottish Centre for Research into On-Line Learning and Assessment University of Glasgow Florentine House 53 Hillhead Street Glasgow, G12 8QQ 0141 330 2878 r.harris@udcf.gla.ac.uk www.scrolla.ac.uk -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org]On Behalf Of Frank Schaap Sent: 26 September 2002 13:44 To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] archiving websites for later analysis I know this has been discussed here before, but I can't seem to find that discussion anymore. I'm analysing a relatively limited number of homepages and I'm looking for a way to archive them to be able to later go back to the state I found them in for analysis purposes. Using the "save as" function of for instance IE isn't sufficient. Since personal homepages aren't all that big usually, I want to archive the whole site including underlying pages. I have found WebCopier <http://www.maximumsoft.com/> and that seems to work quite okay, but it still has some issues, for instance with iframes. It also converts the directory structure of the site and sometimes it's important to see how someone structures their site. So, in other words, does anyone have any other recommendations? Dept. and IT policies make that I'm looking for something that I can run locally on my own machine... TIA Frank. -- Fragments Blog: http://fragment.nl/ Cyberculture Resources: http://fragment.nl/resources/ _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l