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Powerful New Enterprise Web Archiving Software Launched

Business intelligence, publishing and legally compliant archiving become easy and affordable with Hanzo Enterprise

http://www.hanzoarchives.com PICNIC ‘06, AMSTERDAM, 29 September 2006 — Capturing, preserving and accessing documents from websites and intranets became significantly easier today with the launch of Hanzo Enterprise. Hanzo Enterprise is the first Web archiving system designed specifically for archiving a corporation’s total web presence (TWP) – all the internet, intranet, extranet, blog, customer forum and wiki pages it needs to keep. Uniquely, pages retrieved from Hanzo Enterprise are identical to what was originally served, so that enterprises can:

  • read exactly what appeared on their websites in the past, for example in response to a customer query, irrespective of the technology used to serve it
  • ensure compliance with archiving regulations for digital documents, in the same way as for paper documents
  • hold and sell historical content as easily as current content
  • broaden the documents and data available for future analysis and business intelligence

“Corporations, government agencies and other institutions increasingly rely on Web-based publications and collaboration, such as: websites, extranets, intranets, blogs, wikis, customer forums, and so on.” said Mark Middleton, CEO of Hanzo Archives Limited. “Collectively they are referred to as the Total Web Presence (TWP). From a legal perspective, the TWP is a central responsibility of the corporation as a whole, with liability for content and accuracy – consistent with it being a significant channel for both external and internal communications.”Hanzo’s understanding of these challenges, coupled with its unique technology, enables corporations to address their Web archiving problems today, with the confidence that should they need to access old content, it will be quick and straightforward.”Hanzo Enterprise uses client-side archiving, combined with archiving of content feeds and integration via our APIs. This approach is the most appropriate in the corporate environment as it archives a very broad range of content from a wide variety of systems,” said Mark Williamson, CTO of Hanzo Archives Limited. “Our Enterprise archiving system generates an authentic flat HTML archive, a draft ISO standard format called WARC, containing an exact equivalent of what a generic user would have experienced. This is a significant advantage for generic uses of the archive, such as business intelligence teams, as well as legal uses, such as regulatory compliance.”This product is the latest development in Hanzo’s suite of radical solutions for managing Web archives and documents. It has been developed in response to the increasing importance of archiving within the corporate sector.

Why Hanzo Enterprise is needed

Hanzo Enterprise provides full control over the life-cycle of the total Web presence across all corporate documents, including publication, archival and deletion. Hanzo Enterprise can significantly reduce e-discovery response times by enabling direct search on the totality of a corporation’s Web material, enhanced by filtering by date, keywords, metadata, publications space and so on.Hanzo Enterprise can archive every page, feed or site browsed by employees and customers. Content is archived and made available in a searchable and browsable time structured archive. Internal and external content are gathered in real time or by pre-arranged schedules and stored with metadata and tags for easy identification, organisation and retrieval. Default collection agents can be set up for key employees, who can choose to add additional agents and collections relevant to their work at any time, bringing the benefits of this knowledge to the whole corporation.Traditional backup of databases and servers is not an option for maintaining accessible web-based information, especially where content management systems (CMSs) are used, utilising a broad range of technologies and systems, databases, schemas and templates that inevitably evolve and are very costly to maintain beyond their period of active use.An Enterprise Web Archiving Policy is the only means of creating and maintaining a stable, time-structured, verifiably authentic and independent version of the corporate Total Web Presence. Hanzo Enterprise enables organisations to do this simply and cost effectively.

About Hanzo Archives

Hanzo Archives Limited is a web archiving software and services company based in England and France. It was founded in 2005 by a team of software entrepreneurs and archivists from globally renowned memory institutions. We have observed important and beautiful websites emerge and disappear from the net everyday; whether by simply editing existing content, neglect, accident, censorship or oppression, this is a profound loss. We started Hanzo with the belief that archiving the content of the net is a social and cultural necessity.Furthermore, web archives, with their cumulative and stable long-lived content, are rapidly becoming the foundation to services and tools for business intelligence, commercial advantage and legal compliance. To this end we have created tools for publishers, organisations and individuals to save sites, pages and links forever.

Hanzo Enterprise

Hanzo Enterprise provides full control over the life-cycle of the total Web presence across all corporate publications, including publication, archival and deletion. Hanzo Enterprise can significantly reduce e-discovery response times by enabling direct search on the totality of your Web material, enhanced by filtering by date, keywords, metadata, publications space and so on.Hanzo Enterprise can archive every page, feed or site browsed by employees and customers. Content is archived and made available in a searchable and browsable time structured archive. Internal and external content are gathered in real time or by pre-arranged schedules and stored with metadata and tags for easy identification, organisation and retrieval. Default collection agents can be set up for key employees, who can choose to add additional agents and collections relevant to their work at any time, bringing the benefits of this knowledge to the whole corporation.

Hanzo Forge: White Label Hanzoweb

Online publishers who need the functionality of Hanzoweb but with their own branding can choose Hanzo Forge, our white label archive solution. This is a tailored version of Hanzoweb that provides publishers with a range of powerful tools to collect, organise and store their digital content and their user-generated content, and make it available to customers within the framework of their own brand.Hanzo Forge enables publishers to extend the value of their content over significant periods of time by making historical content accessible in new ways, engaging users in its preservation and enhancement. Publishers can promote their histories and values through collecting, recording, researching and making accessible material that provides an accurate and comprehensive history of their output.

Managed Archiving Services

Hanzo provides instant Web archiving capability to organisations who wish to archive content, generate indexes and aggregate data of specific interest to their business and applications. Hanzo Managed Archiving Services are available for requirements ranging from a few thousand to several millions of URLs per day.

Consulting and Development Services

To complement our products and to enable customers to integrate our products within their corporate environment, we offer consulting, development and integration services.

Posted 29 September 2006 † markm § conference § enterprise § general § news ‡ Comments (0) °

Hanzo Announces New Blog Archiving Service

The first publicly available Web archiving service controlled exclusively by users

http://www.hanzoweb.com PICNIC ‘06, AMSTERDAM, 29 September 2006 — A new blog archiving service is available from today from Hanzo Archives Limited, a web archiving software and services company based in England and France. Hanzoweb is the first Web archiving system designed specifically for archiving the Blogosphere using continuous incremental crawls, directed by users. Hanzoweb is free for a monthly archiving quota of 100MB. For more demanding requirements there is a choice of paid accounts, starting from €54 / year for 1GB / month.”The emergence of the participatory culture on the internet is having a huge impact on digital media. It is characterised by a levelling effect - all consumers can now be producers of content. More participation is leading the digital world into an era of increasing diversity, increasing cultural participation, instant global communications and continuous incremental change” said Mark Middleton, CEO of Hanzo Archives Limited. “The most prolific and important example of this is the Blogosphere - the collective wisdom of the internet, a human running commentary with huge participation and major influence over all things digital.”In this rapidly developing digital world, how are we to preserve the huge volume of creative cultural expression? If we don’t make efforts in this regard, what happens? The Blogosphere is fragile and ephemeral. To ensure it remains available in the long term, the Blogosphere needs to be collected and preserved - a safe haven for the collective wisdom and prolific commentary and linking it contains.” said Middleton.Hanzo provides the means by which everyone can contribute to archiving the Web in the same spirit as the content producers in building the Web. Hanzoweb enables every participant, consumer or producer, to build their own archives through Hanzo’s Web archiving platform, which enables anyone to archive the Blogs and websites that are important to them. The resulting archive will provide access to this old content forever for free to everyone.”Hanzoweb is a self-service application, the first publicly available Web archiving service that is controlled exclusively by users, designed specifically to archive the Blogosphere. Where heritage institutions such as libraries, focus on selected and event based archiving of sites of ‘importance’, Hanzoweb focuses on the ‘long tail’ - the small, eclectic, independent-minded sites, typical of the Blogosphere.” said Middleton.Users can archive pages, collections of pages, and segments of websites via two methods: a Web interface and an API.The Web user interface consists of a bookmarklet for collection, tagging and commentary of archived pages, pages for managing your archive, and pages for viewing other users’ archives. It enables users to collect individual Web pages, collections of pages and segments of websites. Its minimally intrusive interface allows users to continue reading and browsing with the collector still visible. This allows them to copy and paste into comments and tags, and other user friendly ideas.A RESTful API offers a simple means of driving your archiving needs via your blog, CMS or web service. “We have released an open source Wordpress plugin that calls the Hanzoweb API every time the user posts to the Blog. This means simply writing a blog post will result in the post being archived, along with everything it links to, and links to the archived versions inserted into the blog post.” said Mark Williamson, CTO of Hanzo Archives Limited. “Bloggers need never worry about link-rot again.”Hanzoweb uses a continuous crawler that can capture the incremental publishing typical of the Blogosphere, driven by feeds and API calls, Hanzoweb will not miss anything. Hanzoweb’s archiving system generates an authentic flat HTML archive - an exact equivalent of what the user would have experienced. This is a significant advantage for future uses of the archive.”This product represents the continuation of Hanzo’s product expansion and is a testament to the growing importance of archiving in the evolution of the Internet - in particular, the development of a collective intelligence and preservation of this extremely valuable cultural artefact.

About Hanzo Archives

Hanzo Archives Limited is a web archiving software and services company based in England and France. It was founded in 2005 by a team of software entrepreneurs and archivists from globally renowned memory institutions. We have observed important and beautiful websites emerge and disappear from the net everyday; whether by simply editing existing content, neglect, accident, censorship or oppression, this is a profound loss. We started Hanzo with the belief that archiving the content of the net is a social and cultural necessity.Furthermore, web archives, with their cumulative and stable long-lived content, are rapidly becoming the foundation to services and tools for business intelligence, commercial advantage and legal compliance. To this end we have created tools for publishers, organisations and individuals to save sites, pages and links forever.

Hanzo Enterprise

Hanzo Enterprise provides full control over the life-cycle of the total Web presence across all corporate publications, including publication, archival and deletion. Hanzo Enterprise can significantly reduce e-discovery response times by enabling direct search on the totality of your Web material, enhanced by filtering by date, keywords, metadata, publications space and so on.Hanzo Enterprise can archive every page, feed or site browsed by employees and customers. Content is archived and made available in a searchable and browsable time structured archive. Internal and external content are gathered in real time or by pre-arranged schedules and stored with metadata and tags for easy identification, organisation and retrieval. Default collection agents can be set up for key employees, who can choose to add additional agents and collections relevant to their work at any time, bringing the benefits of this knowledge to the whole corporation.

Hanzo Forge: White Label Hanzoweb

Online publishers who need the functionality of Hanzoweb but with their own branding can choose Hanzo Forge, our white label archive solution. This is a tailored version of Hanzoweb that provides publishers with a range of powerful tools to collect, organise and store their digital content and their user-generated content, and make it available to customers within the framework of their own brand.Hanzo Forge enables publishers to extend the value of their content over significant periods of time by making historical content accessible in new ways, engaging users in its preservation and enhancement. Publishers can promote their histories and values through collecting, recording, researching and making accessible material that provides an accurate and comprehensive history of their output.

Managed Archiving Services

Hanzo provides instant Web archiving capability to organisations who wish to archive content, generate indexes and aggregate data of specific interest to their business and applications. Hanzo Managed Archiving Services are available for requirements ranging from a few thousand to several millions of URLs per day.

Consulting and Development Services

To complement our products and to enable customers to integrate our products within their corporate environment, we offer consulting, development and integration services.

Posted 29 September 2006 † markm § conference § general § hanzoweb § news ‡ Comments (0) °

International Web Archiving Workshop 2006

Hanzo presented Hanzoweb, our social web archiving service, at the International Web Archiving Workshop 2006 - IWAW ‘06 - in Alicante last week. The presentation and other papers will be posted on their site soon.

Posted 28 September 2006 † markm § conference § general § hanzoweb ‡ Comments (0) °

“Avoiding Digital Memory Loss” Workshop at PICNIC, Amsterdam, 27 Sept 2006

Hanzo are proud to join the Internet Archive and European Archive at PICNIC’06 Cross Media Week in Amsterdam on 27 September 2006 for a workshop on “Avoiding Digital Memory Loss”. There is a keynote from Brewster Kahle in which he will describe his experience of building the Internet Archive followed by a number of other talks on building, curating and preserving borne-digital content, from numerous European experts.

Hanzo will present two new products

Hanzoweb v2 will be the first, publicly available, continuous web archiving service that you, the public, control. Building on the initial release from earlier in the year, we have changed the core of the application and incorporated a new crawler with a number of unique capabilities that are a critical for building a continuous archiving system. We will present the product, describe the new crawler, our RSS archiving capabilities and our preservation strategy. Hanzoweb is available as a service online and we invite attendees to sign up for free and begin their part in capturing the worlds digital wonders for future generations. Hanzoweb will also be available as a white-label product for institutions who wish to run their own archiving services.Secondly, we will present our new product for Enterprise archiving. Hanzo Enterprise has been designed to provide the ability to capture an organisations digital output and retain it in accordance with their commercial needs and regulatory compliance requirements. We will demonstrate the user interface for the product which streamlines the archiving workflow to meet these specific needs. We will outline the main drivers behind this product, from regulatory needs to corporate memory and heritage.We look forward to seeing you there.

Agenda

Keynote

Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive, USA) Building the Internet Archive

Presentations

Julien Masanes (European Archive, NL) Web Archiving, issues and methodsMark Middleton (Hanzo Archives, UK) Building your own archive Marcel Ras (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, NL) Long-term preservation and permanent access at the KBAnne Laforet (University of Avignon, France) Net art preservation: current state of the artGunther Reisinger (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Media.Art.Research, Austria) The art-historic context of categorizing, description and archiving of net-based artDiscussion and Conclusion

Venue

13.30-17.00 on 27 September, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam. Please note that entrance for the Seminar and the PICNIC Welcome Reception is free.

About PICNIC 06 Cross Media Week

PICNIC 06 is Amsterdam’s new annual event focused on creativity in cross media content and technology, specifically in the fields of entertainment and communication. The event will take place from September 27 - 29 at the Westergasfabriek, a cultural facility located in a former gas factory in Amsterdam. PICNIC 06 is being supported by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the City of Amsterdam and a variety of corporate and service partners. For complete information about the event, visit www.crossmediaweek.org.

Posted 24 August 2006 † markm § conference § enterprise § general § hanzoweb ‡ Comments (0) °

Wordpress plugin

We’ve released a Wordpress Plugin which automatically archives anything you link to in your blog posts; it also adds a ‘perma-permalink’ for the archived version adjacent to each original link.

Posted 16 May 2006 † markm § general § hanzoweb ‡ Comments (0) °

Hanzoweb Beta

In the last few months Hanzo have been developing and testing a web archiving service for individual end-users - Hanzo:web. Currently in Beta, we have around 1,500 users testing the product day-to-day. The service is live and uses the same archiving engine embedded in our white label archive engine and our enterprise server products. Please use Hanzo:web to get a flavour of what web archiving is all about and let us know what you think.

Posted 12 May 2006 † markm § general § hanzoweb ‡ Comments (1) °

Hanzo Open API

Hanzo recently launched the Open API at ETech in March 2006. You can find documentation and code samples on our wiki, including a Hanzo:web Wordpress Plugin, at our Developer Site.

Posted 11 May 2006 † markm § general § hanzoweb ‡ Comments (1) °