[Archive-access-discuss] ANN: New release of WERA+NutchWAX, ARC access toolset

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This note is to announce a new release 0.4.0 of WERA (WEb aRchive
Access), the web archive collection search and navigation tool, and of
NutchWAX (Nutch with Web Archive eXtensions), the web archive collection
search engine that powers the WERA application (among other things).  
Use the tools together to access a repository of ARC files.

Release 0.4.0 of WERA adds much improved error and encoding handling, a
manual as well as an architectural overview document. Packaging has also
been improved. See the Release Notes for more detail on changes (and
current known limitations) at
http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/projects/wera/articles/releasenotes.html. 

Also, with release 0.4.0, WERA has migrated from its old home in the
NWAToolset at nwa.nb.no to a subproject of
archive-access.sourceforge.net.  The WERA home page is at:
http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/projects/wera/.

Release 0.4.0 of NutchWAX includes lots of bug fixes and has been built
against release 0.7 of nutch. Again see the release notes for details:
http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/projects/nutch/articles/releasenotes.html.   

For the NutchWAX home page, see:
http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/projects/nutch/.

A demo of WERA+NutchWAX in operation can be found at
http://nwa.nb.no/wera/.

Yours,
Sverre Bang and Michael Stack