Development of a Web Archival System for Universities in Nigeria

Abstract

Web archiving is the process of gathering up data that has been recorded on the World Wide Web, storing it, ensuring the data is preserved in an archive, and making the collected data available for future research. A Web archive system is a traditional subject for preserving web content for the future, and its importance is getting more significant due to the explosive growth of web content. As good as it is, Universities in Nigeria do not have their intellectual properties put together on the same platform, making accessibility difficult for students and researchers. The primary purpose of this work is to develop a central repository website capable of assisting universities in Nigeria to upload their final-year project so that students worldwide can access it and know if such projects are already in existence.  The web archival system was developed using the Django framework (Python, HTML/CSS) and MySQL as a database server. The output of this website allows different Universities to add their past project to make it easier for Students to search if their projects are already in existence and have more knowledge about how projects are being done. This work will give Nigerian Universities more visibility and promote interoperability.