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.
This week, we say goodbye to 2007, and we said goodbye to "Charlotte" as well. Our garden spider in the kitchen window disappeared about a day after this photo was taken. Frankly, I thought she was either very sick or deceased here since we had never seen her "frozen" in place on her back before. She did survive through Christmas, and she leaves an unknown number of children in three cocoons that she wove into the eaves. 
11 comments:
Happy New Year....and wishes for all the Best in 2008!
Maybe a relative of our spiders here. They get huge.
NIce macro shot.
Very best wishes and a happy New Year to you too,
from South Shields Daily Photo
Exquisite photo of some spider! Very nice!
Happy New Year to you as well and how sad to read of "Charlotte's" passing.
Thanks so much for visiting Guelph and have a wonderful 2008.
Pat
Guelph Daily Photo, My Photo Project
Awww...she was beautiful! I'm sorry to hear that she is gone. We have quite a few animals in our yard that we've grown attached to, also.
Happy New Year's Eve!
Andrea
yikes!!!
Sorry to see Charlotte go. She is a lovely spider. I'm sure her legacy will live on.
Golden Cross Spider right? I always enjoy your creepy crawlers.
Yikes! Very nice shot but I am terrified of spiders.
That is an excellent photo. Although I'm not afraid of spiders, I'm not sure if I could get close enough to take such a picture.
Wishing you the best in 2008!
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