Archive Team is a group dedicated to digital preservation and web archiving that was co-founded by Jason Scott in 2009. [1] [2]
Its primary focus is the copying and preservation of content housed by at-risk online services. Some of its projects include the partial preservation of GeoCities, [3] [4] Yahoo! Video, Google Video, Splinder, Friendster, FortuneCity, [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [ excessive citations ] TwitPic, [13] SoundCloud, [14] and the "Aaron Swartz Memorial JSTOR Liberator". [15] Archive Team also archives URL shortener services [16] and wikis [17] 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." [18] 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." [19]
Archive Team is composed of a loose community of independent contributors/users.[ citation needed ] Their archival process makes use of a "Warrior", a virtual machine environment. Individuals use the Warrior in their desktop environments use to download content without requiring technical expertise. Tasks are allocated by a centrally-managed Tracker that networks with and allocates items to Warriors. The tracker also monitors user upload activity and displays a leader board. [20]
There are several projects currently running:
As of 9 June 2023 [update] , the largest project on ArchiveTeam is Reddit, with over 2.82 petabytes archived. [33]
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