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.


12 comments:
what an amazing palindrome; generation on the other side of the mirror.
beauty debra
thanks for sharing
and hi!
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Happy Earth Day..I will try to watch the video if my old pc lets me :))
Totally great. Should have taken first place. So original. Thanks for sharing it.
Mary
totally cool
~what a twist this was...and emotional...i was at first bothered by her words and then she started reading again...a powerful piece this is...words we all need to remember...we do have a choice...thank you so for sharing this with us...warm wishes and brightest blessings~
Yes, what a wonderful video. I have used it as a class studio. Very clever and meaningful.
I never get tired of that video. Coincidentally, I never get tired of you. Or cheesecake.
Thank you for posting this - will take a good look at the video in just a minute. I've no idea what happened, but I went to 'approve' you blog comment and it disappeared?!? :o(
Hope all is well with you. :o)
absolutely wonderful..so smart and so true..bless those kids.
very clever!
Dagnammit, I will need to come back after work... I will need to come back anyway, it appears I have missed lots recently!
Hope your surgery went well and that you are on the road to recovery - I'll be sure to catch up :0)
loved this...Thank you..
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