title: CAPTURING AND REPLAYING STREAMING MEDIA IN A  WEB ARCHIVE – A BRITISH LIBRARY CASE STUDY
creators: Helen Hockx-Yu Stephen Johnson Lewis Crawford Roger Coram
abstract: A prerequisite for digital preservation is to be able to capture
  and retain the content which is considered worth preserving.
  This has been a significant challenge for web archiving,
  especially for websites with embedded streaming media
  content, which cannot be copied via a simple HTTP request to
  a URL. This paper describes the approach taken by the British
  Library in capturing and replaying streaming media in a web
  archive. A working system is now in place which will lead to
  the development of more generic tools and workflows,
  contributing to addressing a common challenge for the web
  archiving community. The British Library recently archived a
  large scale public arts project website,
  http://www.oneandother.co.uk, which contains 2,400 hours of
  flash videos, streamed over Real Time Messaging Protocol
  (RTMP). The case study also presents an overview of the nontechnical
  issues relevant to archiving this high-profile website.