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.
NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF
The buildings look very stark, but there is something very appealing about them too. Maybe I'm imagining warm & cozy inside? Or one of my ancestors is calling me...
ReplyDeleteThe gale must be building already. Isn't that three posts in one day? Something must be keeping you indoors! That's a lovely old building. Does it seem strange moving backwards and forwards from all that history to a "new" land? Seems to me it wouldn't be just north and south that was confusing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for showing these, I love looking at old houses. Seeing pictures like these makes me itch for travelling which I'm not really physically up to these days - but on the other hand, this way I get to see them without the effort of actually going places and dragging luggage around... (Yesterday I wore myself out just with two longish walks in the same day...)
ReplyDeleteSo I'll take the positive attitude and rejoice in the possibility of at least being able to see more of the world through other people's eyes! Looking forward to New Zealand soon...;) Which I chiefly know from films like Lord of the Rings! LOL
I think these signs are very good. As you know I've started collecting them. Some could be classed as works of art.
ReplyDeleteWonderful, GB ♥
ReplyDeleteOh, these are really cool. I love the bareness of the outside...it is like the wind tried and tried and couldn't get in. I imagine cozy chairs surrounding big fireplaces inside.
ReplyDeleteVery, very cool.