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.
ArchiveBot is an IRC bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a WARC, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the Internet Archive (or other archive sites).
To use ArchiveBot, drop by #archivebot on EFNet. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue commands by typing it into the channel. Note you will need channel operator permissions in order to issue archiving jobs. The dashboard shows the sites being downloaded currently.
On Saturday, March 15, 2025, access to the National Gallery of Art may be affected by the Rock 'n' Roll DC Half Marathon and 5K. We recommend taking public transportation and giving yourself extra time.
Jacques Goudstikker was the son of Edouard Goudstikker, who had opened his gallery in Amsterdam in the mid-nineteenth century. By the early twentieth century it was one of the best known art firms in Amsterdam and was run by Jacques. The firm had a huge inventory of old master paintings and published, exhibited, and sold widely. The history of the firm during World War II is particularly complicated. Jacques Goudstikker, a Jew, fled Holland in May 1940, just prior to the German occupation. He died en route to England, leaving behind a young widow, Desirée, and an unborn child who eventually made their way to the United States. In July of 1940 the gallery in Amsterdam was sold by Goudstikker employees to Alois Miedl, a principle agent for Hermann Goering. Goering took the pick of the Gallery's stock and sold back to Miedl those paintings which he did not want. Miedl then continued run the gallery under the Goudstikker name throughout the war. He continued to act as a dealer throughout the war, selling primarily to German buyers in Amsterdam as well as exporting a large number of Goudstikker paintings to Germany for sale. Near the end of the war, in 1944 Miedl, managed to get into Spain with 25 paintings (some Goudstikker). He was interrogated there by the Officer of Strategic Services regarding his war-time activities. The post war history of the Goudstikker collection is equally complicated. After the war, over 300 Goudstikker pictures were restituted to the Dutch government, who made a complicated arrangement with Desirée Goudstikker and eventually kept most of the recovered Goudstikker pictures.
Bibliography
1946
Rousseau, Theodore. Consolidated Interrogation Report: The Goering collection. 1946: 71-74, attachments 17-18, 22-29 [copy: National Gallery Archives, S. Lane Faison Papers, Box 1]
1986
Venema, Adriaan. Kunsthandel in Nederland, 1940-1945. Amsterdam, c. 1986: 120-186
1994
Nicholas, Lynn. H. The Rape of Europa. New York, 1994:83-85, 104-107, 422-423.
1998
Riding, Alan. "Heirs Claim Art Lost to Nazis in Amsterdam." The New York Times 12 January 1998
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.
