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Your point about multiple points of failure is well made, but one of the problems with the constant focus on the admirable efforts of the Internet Archive here
by mellosouls 6y ago
Your point about multiple points of failure is well made, but one of the problems with the constant focus on the admirable efforts of the Internet Archive here and elsewhere is precisely that the many other archiving and digital preservation efforts go by relatively unheralded and underfunded.
Having said that, the spotlight on the IA does give opportunity to raise the profile of web archiving and digital preservation generally; we just need to be careful not to invest everything in any one initiative - as the parent comment fairly points out.
- Shared404 6y ago> one of the problems with the constant focus on the admirable efforts of the Internet Archive here and elsewhere is precisely that the many other archiving and digital preservation efforts go by relatively unheralded and underfunded. Any chance you could point me to some other initiatives? I'm always interested in finding more repositories of information.
- mellosouls 6y agoExample (these have followed the trailblazing Internet Archive): https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Web_archiving_initiatives https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Web_archiving_initiat... International Internet Preservation Consortium is an active body linking many of them. https://netpreserve.org/ https://netpreserve.org/ There are various resources giving information on tools etc, eg. https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Comm...
- Shared404 6y agoThat is an amazing list. Favorited.