Indice

TL;DR indice is a new open source tool for searching web archives. Install it locally or give the demo a try. Email me if you want to give the curator privileges a try. Not too long ago I wrote about reading rooms for the archived web, or web sites that provide contextualized access to archived web content. The basic idea is that an aspirational reading room like this provides index, browse, search, and descriptive layers that archival records need in order to be found and used by researchers. Over the past six months, with a lot of help from agentic-coding tools (mostly Claude) on the weekends, I’ve been building an experimental tool called indice to help make reading rooms like this. Since it’s World Digital Preservation Day I thought I’d share some of its design goals, and where you can take a look at it, if you are interested. This was my first real experiment in using “AI” for software development (more on that in another post I think). I know some people will instinctively write…

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