WARC File Format Published as an International Standard

The International Internet Preservation Consortium is pleased to announce the publication of the WARC file format as an international standard: ISO 28500:2009, Information and documentation -- WARC file format. The WARC format is expected to be a standard way to structure, manage and store billions of resources collected from the web and elsewhere. It is an extension of the ARC format , which has been used since 1996 to store files harvested on the web.