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That helps you, but that doesn't help everyone else. Consider asking Zotero to do full WARC captures, which you could then donate to the Internet Archive and h

That helps you, but that doesn't help everyone else. Consider asking Zotero to do full WARC captures, which you could then donate to the Internet Archive and have them be included in the Wayback Machine, which would benefit everyone.

dredmorbius 12y ago
Oooh! I like this.
dredmorbius 12y ago
Thinking about this further, this might also be a really useful tie-in for Wikipedia. It also increasingly relies on Web citations, many of which fail. If cited material were automatically archived and submitted to TIA, this could be further useful. The fact that this is an inherent archival of information which is deemed relevant and citable is also worth noting.
- vitovito 12y ago
  They're starting to do this: http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/ http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/ We have started crawling the outlinks for every new article and update as they are made – about 5 million new URLs are archived every day. Now we have to figure out how to get archived pages back in to Wikipedia to fix some of those dead links. Kunal Mehta, a Wikipedian from San Jose, recently wrote a protoype bot that can add archived versions to any link in Wikipedia so that when those links are determined to be dead the links can be switched over automatically and continue to work. It will take a while to work this through the process the Wikipedia community of editors uses to approve bots, but that conversation is under way.
  - dredmorbius 12y ago
    That's great news.
whyenot 12y ago
Hi, the Zotero project is open source and non-profit, currently getting the majority of its funding from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Following the open source model, it depends on people like you to help out with coding new features. If doing full WARC captures is something that you feel is important, you might want to help out and contribute the necessary code. Zotero's code base is pretty approachable. I've personally submitted fixes to the project. Go here for more information on how to get involved: https://www.zotero.org/getinvolved/ https://www.zotero.org/getinvolved/

dredmorbius 12y ago

Oooh! I like this.

dredmorbius 12y ago

Thinking about this further, this might also be a really useful tie-in for Wikipedia. It also increasingly relies on Web citations, many of which fail. If cited material were automatically archived and submitted to TIA, this could be further useful. The fact that this is an inherent archival of information which is deemed relevant and citable is also worth noting.

vitovito 12y ago
They're starting to do this: http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/ http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/ We have started crawling the outlinks for every new article and update as they are made – about 5 million new URLs are archived every day. Now we have to figure out how to get archived pages back in to Wikipedia to fix some of those dead links. Kunal Mehta, a Wikipedian from San Jose, recently wrote a protoype bot that can add archived versions to any link in Wikipedia so that when those links are determined to be dead the links can be switched over automatically and continue to work. It will take a while to work this through the process the Wikipedia community of editors uses to approve bots, but that conversation is under way.
- dredmorbius 12y ago
  That's great news.

whyenot 12y ago

Hi, the Zotero project is open source and non-profit, currently getting the majority of its funding from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Following the open source model, it depends on people like you to help out with coding new features. If doing full WARC captures is something that you feel is important, you might want to help out and contribute the necessary code. Zotero's code base is pretty approachable. I've personally submitted fixes to the project. Go here for more information on how to get involved: https://www.zotero.org/getinvolved/ https://www.zotero.org/getinvolved/