[Archive-access-discuss] [wayback] dividing by collections

[Ignacio G. <igc...@gm...>]

Hello,

I have a question regarding collections within wayback.
In the older perl versions, there was a way to specify different collections
within wayback, and each collection will be handled as a separate set of arc
files. Having specific messages identifying the collections and searching
withing collections only...
I was wondering if the latest java versions have such functionallity built
in?

What I'm trying to achieve is the following:

Imagine I have a set of 100 arc files, and 25 are from crawls related with
science magazine articles, 25 related with sports magazines and the other 50
as misc. crawls.
I would like to create 2 collections: One for science magazines and 1 for
sport magazines.
Once the collections are created, I would like to be able to search either
ALL the arcs (100), or search by collection. I select one of the 2
collections created and then only the specific arcs will the searched.
Also, if I search for http://espn.magazine.com/* within the science
magazines collection, and I get NO RESULTS, the message shown by wayback
would have a specific message created for that particular collection,
something like: No results withing SCIENCE MAGAZINES collection.

Since the old wayback was able to handle such configurations, I was
wondering if this was still doable in the newest java versions, or if I need
to modify the actual source code to fit my needs?

Thank you.