Workflow:Quality Assurance: Iterative Seed Issue Decision Tree

Quality Assurance: Iterative Seed Issue Decision Tree
Status:	Production
Tools:	Heritrix Webrecorder OpenWayback Pywb OutbackCDX CDX
Input:	Web Archives visual replay and crawl report data
Output:	Adjustments to seed URLs and scopes; the results of a future crawl; documentation
Organisation:	Library of Congress

Workflow Description

Purpose, Context and Content

This decision tree is meant to provide an outline for completing seed-by-seed quality assurance, beginning with data from Heritrix crawl reports and iterating on input, crawler, or other variables until either the captures improve or a seed URL is deemed non-archivable.

Evaluation/Review

This workflow or some version of it has been in place for a long time in our program. It is labor intensive and certainly cannot be completed on 100% of the materials going into the crawls or 100% of the materials coming out of the crawls. That said, close attention to detail may yield results, even if QA cannot be completed all the time on everything.