Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.
Being in the moment is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in the dance world. But in this improvised solo by the tap dancer Ayodele Casel, having such focus is key.
Set to a duet recorded by the great jazz drummer Max Roach and the pianist Cecil Taylor, Casel created the solo as part of a recent program to celebrate Roach’s centenary.
“The way in is to honor what you’re hearing,” she said.
The full work lasts 26 minutes. In dance speak, that’s long. Here, she shares a minute, shot on the intimate stage of Royal Family in Times Square.
Early on, Casel — tap royalty who is featured on a United States postage stamp — tried choreographing the solo, but that turned out to be impossible.
“It would betray the spirit of the piece and the spirit of who they were,” she said. The result is like the present and the past converging in real time.
Casel doesn’t know the music by heart, but sometimes her dancing syncs up with it in otherworldly ways.
“It’s almost like they’re answering me,” Casel said, “Or I’m answering them.”
She gets tired. She loses her breath. She’s learned to go with it.
“I just lift my leg and wherever it goes, I follow.”
“I don’t judge in any way. That’s a whole other level of freedom.”
Video by Fletcher Wolfe. Produced by Jolie Ruben and Josephine Sedgwick.
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
