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Organization: Archive Team

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Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: ArchiveBot: The Archive Team Crowdsourced Crawler

ArchiveBot is an IRC bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a WARC, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the Internet Archive (or other archive sites).

To use ArchiveBot, drop by #archivebot on EFNet. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue commands by typing it into the channel. Note you will need channel operator permissions in order to issue archiving jobs. The dashboard shows the sites being downloaded currently.

There is a dashboard running for the archivebot process at http://www.archivebot.com.

ArchiveBot's source code can be found at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot.

TIMESTAMPS

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20210422165341/https://developers.google.com/community/dsc-solution-challenge

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The 2021 Solution Challenge mission is to solve for one or more of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals using Google technology.

We invite university students around the world to join the competition with Google Developer Student Clubs.

Step 1: Register
Step 2: Learn and build
Step 3: Demo and submit by April 11, 2021

Top 50 teams

Receive mentorship from Google and other experts to improve and submit a solution for the top prize.

Top 10 finalists

Win a 1 year subscription to Pluralsight, swag, additional customized mentoring from Google, and a feature in the Google Developers Blog and Demo Day live on YouTube.

Top 3 winners

Win all the prizes included in the Top 10 category along with a Chromebook and a coffee chat with a Google executive.

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What are the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals?

Created by the United Nations in 2015 to be achieved by 2030, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed upon by all 193 United Nations Member States aim to end poverty, ensure prosperity, and protect the planet.

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Evaluation criteria

Please note: Each solution is evaluated on a scale of 1 to 100.

IMPACT [60 points]

Does the entry establish a clear challenge focused on one or more of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals? Is it explained in a clear manner with specific Sustainable Development Goal targets they are looking to solve for? [10]
How effectively does the solution address the challenge identified by the team? [20]
Is there evidence of a next step? Does the team display a plan for future extension if they were to continue? [10]
Is there evidence that the solution has been thoroughly tested with real users? [10]
Is there evidence that the solution was iterated upon based on user feedback? [10]

TECHNOLOGY [40 points]

Does the solution implement all the technical components needed to solve the challenge? [10]
Has the team clearly explained what Google technology they used, why, and included guidance on how to run their code? [10]
Does the video demonstration show the working solution and how a user will interact with the solution?
Does the demonstration highlight how Google's technologies are implemented and also mention the value the technology provides the users? [10]
Has the team made effective product and technical decisions for their solution? [10]