[WebCultures] grassroots web archiving projects

jara rocha jararocha at gmail.com
Sat Sep 5 21:14:18 CEST 2015


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http://activearchives.org/wiki/Main_Page

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jxxx



El sábado, 5 de septiembre de 2015, Ed S

ummers <ehs at pobox.com> escribió:

> Hi Marcin,
>
> > On Sep 5, 2015, at 5:42 AM, Marcin Wilkowski <m at wilkowski.org
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to collect information on grassroots web archiving projects -
> > web archiving is done not only by national archives or libraries but
> > also by organizations and common people. The best example is of course
> > the Internet Archive Foundation, but I found also Archive Team
> > (archiveteam.org) or the independent archival movement of Occupy Wall
> > Street (
> http://thebrooklynink.com/2011/12/26/39230-the-anarchivists-who-owns-the-occupy-wall-street-narrative/
> )
> >
> > Do you know any more similar initiatives?
>
> It’s an interesting question, I would be very interested in what you come
> up with, if you are able to share it.
>
> A few years ago I wrote a little piece [1] about the grass roots efforts
> to collect and re-publish content that Jonathan Gillette and Mark Pilgrim
> pulled offline when they committed "info-suicide" a few years ago.
>
> Also, here are a couple other stories that may be of interest:
>
> * Rhizome (New Museum) have been archiving artists' web content [2].
> * Museum of Modern Art in New York has been collecting their own
> exhibition sites. [3]
>
> Perhaps those stories aren’t grass roots enough. But they aren’t national
> libraries. I did take the liberty of forwarding your question to a new
> discussion list that is just getting started up called web-archives [4]. I
> hope that was ok.
>
> //Ed
>
> [1] http://inkdroid.org/2013/11/26/the-web-as-a-preservation-medium/
> [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web-archives/WVzzdpvmjpE
> [3]
> http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2015/05/25/moma-org-turns-20-archiving-two-decades-of-exhibition-sites
> [4]
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/a-new-tool-to-preserve-moments-on-the-internet/?_r=0
>


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