Without being exploited: What archivists should learn from the XeNTaX forums aftermath
XeNTaX forums and wiki have shut down and archival attempts have been suppressed. But for good reason!
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Interview with Hubz of Gaming Alexandria
Interview with Gaming Alexandria admin Hubz on Game Preservation and Scanning
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YouTube’s Community Posts are tragically killing the Discussion Tab
A few days ago YouTube announced that millions of channels would gain access to Community Posts next month. Unfortunately, many people have missed the footnote that they are removing the similar Discussion feature which was already available to all channels. Read on to learn more about how this update will affect YouTube!
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Help Archive Team Archive public Google Drive files before September 13!
On September 13, Google is going to start requiring longer URLs to access many Google Drive files, breaking links to public files across the web unless users opt out! Because…
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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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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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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We Just Rescued Thousands of Unpublished YouTube Captions
YouTube recently removed their community contributions feature, so we collected as many unpublished caption drafts as we possibly could...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...