Building Collections on the Web BCWeb

What’s BCWeb ? BCWeb was developped entirely by the BnF for the content curators to replace its old selection tools and the excel table It’s based on the organization of the BnF – A network of librarians ( = content curators) who select websites – BnF uses Netarchivesuite – The organization of the collections

The network of content curators BCWeb is used by the content curators inside the BnF And by external partners – regional libraries – university libraries – research laboratories...

BCWeb a tool to select websites

The curator defines the scope of the crawl

The technical settings The content curator chooses several technical settings, in particular : The type of crawl: broad and selective. The budget : it indicates the number of URLs collected per website (defined according to the website’s size), The frequency And the depth The lists of websites are transferred to NAS

BCWeb settings are related to NAS settings

The transfer is done by the digital legal deposit team

A record contains also… Management information : the creator, the manager of the record… The curator can deactivate a record to stop its harvest He can add some additional URLs. A description The curator and the digital legal deposit team can add some notes on the QA for example He adds a theme

The BnF’s collections

2 types of collections Ongoing focused collections – selections maintained by the different departments of the library related to their expertise and to their collection policy; And project collections – selections on a specific theme or in connection with an event, usually organized by members of several departments of the library, sometimes in cooperation with external partners The domain list of the broad crawl isn’t in BCWeb In the admin part, it’s possible to make the correspondance between a collection and a harvest definition

Correspondance between the collections and the harvest definitions

To conclude… It depends on the BnF’s workflow and the BnF’s needs – It doesn’t allow to manage information about the producers or the rights – It isn’t a QA tool (no links between BCWeb and the archives, the historical URLs of the website are not visible) The developments are now reduced : – They concern improvements or bug corrections (for example, the performance) – The BnF starts to open its code