Archive team

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Archive Team is the name of a group that is dedicated to electronic and web archiving. It was co-founded by Jason Scott in 2009. It sees its main task in copying content from online services and preventing it from disappearing, in which the further existence is not secured. Examples of this are the partial backup of GeoCities , Yahoo! Video, Google Video, Splinder , Friendster , FortuneCity, TwitPic, SoundCloud and the Aaron Swartz Memorial JSTOR Liberator . Archive Team also regularly archives short URL services and wikis.

According to Jason Scott, Archive Team was founded out of anger and a sense of powerlessness they felt toward companies that made decisions about which content was worth preserving and which was not. According to Scott, it is not the responsibility of the archive team to find out what is valuable or important. The following virtues are used: anger , paranoia and kleptomania .

Warrior tracker system

Archive Team consists of a loose association of independent users. As can be read on the project wiki, a so-called warrior is used for archiving, an environment based on a virtual machine, with which pages previously downloaded by individual users are uploaded. To do this, the archivist runs a virtual machine on his computer that is independent of the host operating system. The downloaded page is then automatically integrated into the Archive Team Repository, which is hosted by the Internet Archive . The Warrior runs in conjunction with software called a tracker. This software tracks the progress and the individual projects via a leaderboard. The tracker is also responsible for delegating the projects to the users or warriors.

Projects

As of May 2019, Google Plus is the largest project to date, with a size of 1.56 petabytes .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jason Scott: Team Archive is GO . ASCII by Jason Scott. January 6, 2009. Archived from the original on November 2, 2016. Retrieved on December 30, 2016.
  2. ↑ Revision history of "Main Page" . Archive team. Archived from the original on December 31, 2016. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
  3. ^ Scott Gilbertson: Geocities Lives On as Massive Torrent Download . November 1, 2010.
  4. ↑ Austin Modine: Web 0.2 archivists save Geocities from deletion . April 28, 2009.
  5. ↑ Mark Sullivan: The 'Archive Team' Rescues User Content From Doomed Sites . April 13, 2012. Archived from the original on April 20, 2012.
  6. ^ Matt Schwartz: Fire in the Library . January 2012. Archived from the original on April 20, 2012.
  7. ↑ Bob Garfield, Jason Scott: The Archive Team . In: OnTheMedia . March 23, 2012. Archived from the original on April 20, 2012. Retrieved on April 19, 2012.
  8. ↑ Mike Masnick: Historic Archive Of Websites From The January 18th SOPA Blackout . In: Techdirt . April 12, 2012. Archived from the original on April 20, 2012.
  9. ↑ Jason Scott: Click: The Archive Team - Jason Scott talks about his mission to salvage our digital heritage . BBC. March 6, 2012. Archived from the original on April 20, 2012.
  10. ↑ Simon Morton, Jason Scott: The Archive Team . In: RadioNZ . March 3, 2012. Archived from the original on April 20, 2012.
  11. ^ Dan Misener: Full Interview: Jason Scott on online video and digital heritage . CBC. April 29, 2011. Archived from the original on April 20, 2012.
  12. ↑ Sumit Paul-Choudhury: Amateur heroes of online heritage . May 6, 2011. Archived from the original on March 9, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  13. ↑ TwitPic - Archive Team . Archived from the original on September 9, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
  14. ^ Archive Team promises to back up SoundCloud amid worries of a shutdown . July 18, 2017. Archived from the original on October 21, 2018. Retrieved on November 28, 2018.
  15. ↑ Aaron Swartz Memorial JSTOR Liberator sets public domain academic articles free . January 15, 2013. Archived from the original on March 23, 2018. Retrieved on November 28, 2018.
  16. ↑ url shortening was a fucking awful idea . In: URLTE.AM . Archived from the original on June 11, 2011.
  17. ↑ WikiTeam - We archive wikis, from Wikipedia to tiniest wikis
  18. ↑ Open Source Bridge 2012 Keynote - Jason Scott . Archived from the original on September 14, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
  19. ↑ Open Source Bridge 2012 Keynote - Jason Scott . Archived from the original on September 14, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
  20. ↑ ArchiveTeam Warrior - archive team .
  21. ↑ Tracker - archive team .
  22. ↑ Google Plus on ArchiveTeam Wiki.