
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.
Add the service instance id to the resource attributes to prevent
downstream OTEL processors and exporters from thinking that the CLI
invocations are a single process that keeps restarting. The unique id
can be removed through downstream aggregation to prevent cardinality
issues, but we need some way to tell OTEL that it shouldn't reset the
counters.
Move the check for the experimental flag to its own package and then use
that invocation to prevent creating exporters so metrics are disabled
completely. This makes it so we don't have to check for the experimental
flag in every place we add metrics until we decide to make metrics
stable in general.
This also moves the OTEL initialization to a
util/metricutilpackageto be more consistent with the existing util naming and to differentiate
it from the upstream
metricname. Using bothmetricsandmetricasimport names was confusing since
metricwas an upstream dependency andmetricswas a local utility.metricutilmatches with the existingutilities and makes clear that it isn't a spelling mistake.
The record version metric has been removed since we weren't planning on
keeping that metric anyway and most of the information is now included
in the instrumentation library name and version. That function is
included as a utility in the
otel/sdk/metricpackage to retrieve theappropriate meter from the meter provider.