irchiver: A Full-Resolution Personal Web Archive for Users and Researchers
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irchiver is a personal web archive tool for users, which also provided an opportunity for information retrieval researchers to access naturalistic long-term browsing histories. It offers users the ability to capture and search their web archives, which are stored in full-resolution images on their local filesystem. Researchers can request these files, or develop a plugin that triggers when a new image is captured. irchiver runs as a Windows background process using a hook and capture technique that works on all 5 major desktop browsers. The first author has been using irchiver for 12 months, encountering unexpected benefits in archive retrieval, change detection, search functionality, and content recovery.
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CHIIR '23: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
March 19 - 23, 2023
TX, Austin, USA
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