Quality control

Once we have created a web archive for a site, we need people who can (more or less) read Ukrainian or Russian to check the archives to make sure that they didn’t miss anything major.

• Go to the “QC” tab in the SUCHO working sheet (linked in the SUCHO Slack)
  • Column G has the link to the “WACZ file”, which is the web archive.
  • Column I has the link for reviewing the web archive
  • Column J is for QC status
  • Column K is for QC person
  • Column L is for QC notes
• Find a row with an empty QC status. Set the status to “In progress” and put your name down as the “QC person”
• Take the link from column I (which should start with https://replayweb.page) and open it in your browser. It may take a few moments to load.
• Click on the page title that appears once it loads. This will take you to the web archive.
• Browse the site thoroughly, as if you were browsing a normal webpage. Check menus, submenus, subpages, items, PDFs, anything else that appears as you go.
• If you see broken images, PDFs not loading, internal site links that aren’t captured (it should pop up a warning if something isn’t part of the archive itself), make a note of it, and copy the URL from your browser, which will show us which subpage of the archive the broken thing was on.
  • If you go through the site and feel like it’s complete, change the QC status to “Done” in the SUCHO working spreadsheet and move on.
  • If a site is mostly good but there’s a few things that need to be captured, change the QC status to “Incomplete” and put your notes (and the URLs) in column L
  • If there’s a lot of things missing, set the status to “Broken”.