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This Week in Archiving 08/02/2021
Cinemateca Brasileira archives engulfed in flames, Yahoo Groups archivists are hunting for fandoms and new tools to adapt to a YouTube with far fewer unlisted videos.
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YouTube was made for Reuploads
YouTube is a platform and a community which live off of reuploads. With the privating of old unlisted videos, let's re-examine the relationship between YouTube and reuploading.
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Help Archive Team Save Yahoo! Answers!
Yahoo! Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021, taking nearly 15 years worth of content with it! Archive Team is trying to save as much of it as possible,…
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Why Do We Need Proactive Archiving? Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! Answers might be shutting down in a few days, but internet archivists are already prepared!
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YouTube Community Contributions Archive Now Available: A Look at the Stats
The YouTube Community Contributions Archive is now available on the Internet Archive! You can download the entire collection, or simply search for and download files for a particular video. The…
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Log into your Account: Mediafire to Purge Inactive Users!
Mediafire's new policy is to remove files on accounts inactive for longer than 8 months! Log into your accounts and mirror your stuff!
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Yahoo! Groups Archive Metadata Now Available
After months of work and preparation, the metadata for over 1.1 million Yahoo! Groups retrieved by Archive Team's Python script as well as from other grabs has been organized and…
A New Breed of Digital Archiving and Preservation
In honor of Digital Preservation Day here are the three As we need more than ever: Adaptability, Acceptance and Acknowledgment.
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We Just Rescued Thousands of Unpublished YouTube Captions
YouTube recently removed their community contributions feature, so we collected as many unpublished caption drafts as we possibly could...
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October Status Update on the Save Yahoo Groups! Project
Last Winter when shut down Yahoo Groups there was a major project to rescue data, lead by Archive Team and fandoms who traced their origins to Yahoo Groups. So let's talk about what has transpired since...