WARC-Safe: An Open-Source WARC Virus Checker and NSFW (Not-Safe-For-Work) Content Detection Tool
Presentation highlighting warc-safe, the first open-source WARC virus checker and NSFW (Not-Safe-For-Work) content detection tool. It presents a case study where warc-safe was integrated into SolrWayback and the UK Web Archive’s warc-indexer, and it discusses how warc-safe could be used within an institutional framework, for instance by scanning newly harvested WARC files resulting from large-scale harvesting campaigns as well as including it within existing indexing workflows. It was presented at the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on April 8-10, 2025 in Oslo, Norway.