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.
Professor (Instructor) at @matcom, University of Havana and Ph.D. student jointly at U.Alicante. Democratizing ML via @autogoal, working on cNLP at @ehealthkd.
My name is 👨Alejandro Piad Morffis. Here are some things about me:
I live in Havana, 🇨🇺Cuba.
I'm currently finishing a 🎓PhD in Computer Science, part-time in Alicante, 🇪🇸Spain.
In my free time, I also enjoy 💻coding (mostly in 🐍Python), 🎮playing video games (sadly not much lately), and ✏️writing.
My two passions are 📚teaching and ⚗️researching. I teach Programming, Compilers, AI, and a bunch of other stuff at the University of Havana. I also do research there, mostly on how to use artificial intelligence to better understand human languages, and on the democratization of machine learning tools.
💌 The best way to contact me is to mention @AlejandroPiad on Twitter. I follow very few people (only those with whom I interact frequently) but I try to reply whenever someone asks me to.
And these are the values I stand for:
❤️ I believe that people are generally good, and if given the chance, they will show the better parts of themselves.
❤️ I believe people should have the chance to speak their minds, without fear to be silenced or hated for it, even if they are wrong. And they should have the option to honestly recognize their mistakes, learn from them, and be forgiven.
❤️ I do not tolerate racism or discrimination of any kind, towards me or others around me, and I work very hard to apply those same standards to myself.
❤️ I'm dedicated to education because I think that access to high-quality, unbiased, and free education is one of the best gifts anyone can receive, and one of the easiest ways to make people more reasonable and tolerant.