I’ve been saving wacz files as history of a website. Has anyone heard of a way that the Mirador software
(Open-source, web based, multi-window image viewing platform with the ability to zoom, display, compare and annotate images from around the world)
can display the contents of a wacz file?
It seems like it can… Here’s an AI summary:
To display a web page in a Mirador viewer, you need toaccess the IIIF manifest URL of the webpage, as Mirador primarily functions with IIIF image manifests, and then embed that URL into the Mirador viewer either through a dedicated interface or by directly adding the manifest link within your webpage’s HTML code using an iframe or JavaScript integration… essentially, you cannot directly display a standard web page in Mirador without converting it into a compatible IIIF manifest first.
I don’t know anything about Mirador, but most LLMs are pretty inaccurate when it comes to web archiving questions in my experience. Ocasionally I’ll query ChatGPT or Claude some question about Webrecorder’s software and it usually makes up some complete BS.
As far as I’m aware, Mirador does not currently support viewing web archives, seems pretty image focused.
As far as I know, no and not on the roadmap. There’s some support for audio and video in addition to images, and a lot of ongoing work in the IIIF community on the APIs and support for time-based media as well as 3D assets. But I haven’t heard anything about WACZ support. A plugin for it could be a cool experiment but I don’t think that would ever make it into Mirador core.
Well, Mirador doesn’t have to have wacz support actually, just be able to embed replayweb.page which would do the heavy lifting with wacz… I communicate with the local organization that will host it, but of course they have no experience with what I’m trying to have done: Have a Mirador page embed a web page.