
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.
Its hard to strike a balance, isnt it? Perhaps the best we can do is realise that our busy life IS our life, busy or quiet. And that we must make the best of it. One way is to notice it as it whizzes by in a blur, then maybe we can see the individual moments in the blur more clearly and cherish them - busy or quiet. They are all we have after all!
ReplyDeletethe pressures of modern life. cant complian when we see the wads of notes at month beginning. but yes, once in a while we need to break to monotony and head out for someplace where we can actually LIVE.
ReplyDeletehaaha appu, busyness and stress is too high a price to pay for a wad of notes at the month's beginning. I feel it's about time-management(or mis-management). But still it gets on your nerves when you do all the right things and still you're gasping for time.
ReplyDeleteVal...good perspective. But difficult to arrive at it. I, as a normal human being, crave for certain things(and busyness is not a part of it). Stress arises when I don't seem to get what I wish for.
Maybe it's a journey for me where in I have to accept and come to love the busy part.