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.
Born and raised in New York City, Joseph F. McCrindle attended Harvard University and Yale Law School. After working briefly on Wall Street and in publishing companies in New York and London, he established himself first as a literary agent, and then founded the quarterly literary journal Transatlantic Review, based in London, which was in print from from 1959 to 1977. After closing the journal he created what is now known as the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation to award grants to arts, music, and social justice organizations. It also awards an annual prize to promising creative writing students. McCrindle's principal collecting interest was for old master drawings, but he also bought Italian Baroque paintings, 19th-century drawings, works by British artists such as Duncan Grant, Augustus John, and Walter Sickert, historical manuscripts and letters, and pre-Columbian art. His drawing collection has been exhibited at the Princeton University Art Museum, with whom he was long associated as a donor and patron. McCrindle died at his home in Manhattan on 11 July 2008. His entire collection was distributed to more than thirty institutions in the U.S.
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Old Master Drawings from the collection of Joseph F. McCrindle exh. cat. The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1991
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.
