COLLECTED BY

Organization: Archive Team

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/20200510064923/https://github.com/ryanpitts

ryanpitts Follow

Ryan Pitts ryanpitts

Census Reporter
Spokane, Wash.
Sign in to view email
http://www.ryanpitts.com

Block or report user

Report or block ryanpitts

Contact Support about this user’s behavior.

Learn more about reporting abuse

Organizations

Census Reporter
Spokane, Wash.
Sign in to view email
http://www.ryanpitts.com

Block or report user

Report or block ryanpitts

Contact Support about this user’s behavior.

Learn more about reporting abuse

Popular repositories

journalists-guide-datasets

A collection of introductions to various datasets, giving journalists some friendly background before they start doing analysis. Like "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," only for journalists. And a…

68 16
django-kindle

A simple app for providing a feed of newspaper stories to Amazon for a Kindle edition.

Python 26 1
django-stateface

A simple Django templatetag for rendering icons from ProPublica's awesome StateFace font project.

Python 16
then-and-now-gallery

A demo template for the Then & Now photo gallery app we made for Spokesman.com. We're big fans of The New York Times Then & Now photo widget, so we made a Django+jQuery app for our site. You can se…

JavaScript 8 3
python-scraping-primer

Materials for a one-hour workshop at NICAR 2019

HTML 5
twitteripsum.js

Twitter Ipsum generates placeholder text based on a Twitter user's latest tweets.

JavaScript 3

501 contributions in the last year

Contribution activity

May 2020

OpenNews/opennews-website 4 commits

update what we believe section on homepage May 4
links and language updates May 4

You can’t perform that action at this time.