Archive Team

Archive Team is a group dedicated to preserving digital history that was founded by Jason Scott in 2009. Its primary focus is the copying and preservation of content housed by at-risk services. Some of its projects include the partial preservation of GeoCities,[1][2] Yahoo! Video, Google Video, Splinder, Friendster, FortuneCity,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] TwitPic[11] and the "Aaron Swartz Memorial JSTOR Liberator".[12] Archive Team also archives URL shortener services[13] and wikis[14] on a regular basis.

According to Jason Scott, "Archive Team was started out of anger and a feeling of powerlessness, this feeling that we were letting companies decide for us what was going to survive and what was going to die."[15] Scott continues, "it's not our job to figure out what's valuable, to figure out what's meaningful. We work by three virtues: rage, paranoia and kleptomania."[16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gilbertson, Scott (2010-11-01). "Geocities Lives On as Massive Torrent Download". Wired. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20.
  2. ↑ Modine, Austin (2009-04-28). "Web 0.2 archivists save Geocities from deletion". TheRegister. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20.
  3. ↑ Sullivan, Mark (2012-04-13). "The 'Archive Team' Rescues User Content From Doomed Sites". PCWorld. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20.
  4. ↑ Schwartz, Matt (January 2012). "Fire in the Library". TechnologyReview. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20.
  5. ↑ Garfield, Bob; Scott, Jason (2012-03-23). "The Archive Team". OnTheMedia. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20.
  6. ↑ Masnick, Mike (2012-04-12). "Historic Archive Of Websites From The January 18th SOPA Blackout". TechDirt. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20.
  7. ↑ Scott, Jason (2012-03-06). "Click: The Archive Team - Jason Scott talks about his mission to salvage our digital heritage". BBC. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20.
  8. ↑ Morton, Simon; Scott, Jason (2012-03-03). "The Archive Team". RadioNZ. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20.
  9. ↑ Misener, Dan (2011-04-29). "Full Interview: Jason Scott on online video and digital heritage". CBC. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20.
  10. ↑ Paul-Choudhury, Sumit (May 6, 2011). "Amateur heroes of online heritage". New Scientist. Archived from the original on March 9, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  11. ↑ http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=TwitPic
  12. ↑ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/aaron-swartz-memorial-jstor-liberator-sets-public-domain-academic-articles-free/
  13. ↑ "url shortening was a fucking awful idea". URLTE.AM. Archived from the original on 2011-06-11.
  14. ↑ WikiTeam - We archive wikis, from Wikipedia to tiniest wikis
  15. ↑ "Open Source Bridge 2012 Keynote - Jason Scott".
  16. ↑ "Open Source Bridge 2012 Keynote - Jason Scott".

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