Release notes: ARCH 2.2

Overview

The Internet Archive is pleased to release version 2.2 of the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH) for text and data mining. This version introduces support for new collection types, new datasets, and open source code for developers, as well as bug fixes and minor UI improvements. Browse the summaries below to learn more about each update and plans for future releases.

In this release:

• Collections
• Datasets
• Open source code
• Big fixes
• Other improvements
• More information

Collections

• Added support for Vault collections
• Added initial support for the Wayback Machine collection

Screenshots of ARCH accessing primary source data from the Wayback Machine (left) and Vault digital repository service (right).

Datasets

• Added format-agnostic Extracted text dataset with optional named entity recognition

Open source code

• Released updates to public repositories for ARCH job server and Keystone web client 

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug affecting downloads of legacy Chinese Named Entities dataset files
• Fixed bug affecting detail pages affected by dataset derivation errors
• Added debugging tools to backend dataset administration

Other improvements

• Create custom Archive-It collections by URL prefix
• Refreshed in-app categories and descriptions for all datasets
• Added Gephi Lite tutorial and updated Voyant tutorial for ARCH datasets

More information

Development roadmap

For the latest information about features planned, in research, and in development, see: ARCH development roadmap.

Acknowledgements 

This release was made possible in part by the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (LG-254878-OLS-23) and user testing by our grant partners.

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