Projects

Here's where Archive Teamsters can list the projects they are currently working on and organize new projects.

Active Projects

Jason Scott is running Textfiles.com and archiving a ton of things.
Ross is interviewing the sites of 2008.
l.m.orchard is starting work on some self-hosted web apps that will migrate and archive from other sites. (ie. FriendFeed, Delicious)
starwars.yahoo.com taken down in Dec, 2009
sungo is archiving etherpad.
Scott is archiving the Infoanarchy wiki site. -- The archive is almost complete and is at: Infoanarchy wiki archive.
Tsp is attempting to archive the stories from fanfiction.net and fictionpress.
EmuWikiAdmin is creating a collection of all emulators, emulator documents, and hardware information that exists, regrouped in a referenced database. EmuWiki.com - The Encyclopedia of Emulation.

Suggestion: An archive of .gif and .swf preloaders? Kuro 19:49, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Set up an FTP hub which AT members can access and up/down finished projects.
Track the 100+ top twitter feeds, as designated by one of these idiot Twitter grading sites, and back up on a regular basis the top twitter people, for posterity.
Groklaw has a project proposal that we could help with. - Jason
Archive the shutdown announcement pages on dead sites.
RSS Feed with death notices. - Jason
Twitter profile might be a good way to broadcast new site obituaries. - psicom
TinyURL and similar services, scraping/backup - Steve
- highlight services that at least allow exporting data (Diigo that I know of). Next "best" - services that have registeration and enable viewing your URL / saving them by e.g. saving as HTML (tr.im). Etc. --Jaakkoh 05:39, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Symphony could potentially be used for archiving structured XML/RSS feeds to a relational database - Nick
A Firefox plugin for redirecting users to our archive when they request a site that's been rescued. - ???
As reported on boingboing by Cory Doctorow, all of Gopherspace - scraped in 2007 - needs an archive home. Anybody have 15GB of spare hosted-server space for this project?

I do, please contact me at admin@emuwiki.com to tell me what to do. EmuWikiAdmin 15:17, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Jason founded the Archive Team.
bbot made an archiveteam TPB user. Get the password from him or Jason. (Not really a project, per se.)