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Andrew,<br>
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for now, just let me know. We have an archive-it instance with our
project, and I can use it to crawl sites. If a site is going down, I
can do a one-time crawl to catch it near the end at least. By the way,
frequent crawls for the most part are not adding much content to what
we get from infrequent or even one-time crawls.<br>
<br>
Henry<br>
<br>
Andrew Armstrong wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:49B5440E.7020404@aarmstrong.org" type="cite">We
need to look at some point into helping preserve websites - especially
ones that simply cease to be. I brought this up off list a bit with
Henry and Simon a while back - what pipqued my interest again was this:
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gamecyte.com/rip-gamecyte-2008-2009">http://www.gamecyte.com/rip-gamecyte-2008-2009</a>
<br>
<br>
A site I don't think I've ever visited, and if not then I can't recall
it from memory. It was operating for an entire year, and I'd no clue.
Well, it's stopping - but no doubt this is something to preserve in
some way if they then switch off the hosting next month.
<br>
<br>
The IA crawlers are okay in general, for sites which don't go out of
business or offline, and if they are setup properly. However many sites
are not crawled often enough, certainly not to the level of accuracy
that would be acceptable for preservation (see the example HotU!)
<br>
<br>
Jason Scott created a task force more dedicated to grabbing sites while
they are still online,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page">http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page</a> - I will join
their group to see how they operate, and see if I can help or do
something.
<br>
<br>
This is a possible project we can look at working on continually -
while the IGDA is both a developer orientated group (give or take) and
hasn't got the funding to do a physical archive, I can help put my
efforts into this (along with any help we're able to get) just because
I don't think many other places (any other places?) think about this
and other area's we're working on.
<br>
<br>
My thoughts are to maybe just for now list websites which are basically
shutting with their "death date" and then requesting off the
owners/webmasters if possible an archived copy of the site for at least
dark storage on the Internet Archive, if not public access. I've no
idea if the more accurate/on demand Wayback scanner is another route to
take, although doens't that require payment to use? (while we have no
money ;) )
<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance to anyone provides a comment, I'd not mind knowing if
this was worth working on in the future.
<br>
<br>
Andrew
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