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.
Lillian Guyer was married for the second time in 1918 to William Robert Timken [1866-1949], co-founder with his brother Henry of the Timken Carriage Works (later the Timken Roller Bearing Company of Canton, Ohio). The roller bearings were designed for horse-drawn carriages and buggies, but Timken anticipated their importance to the nascent auto industry and in 1909 organized the Timken-Detroit Axel Company. Mrs. Timken was previously married to Freeman Ford, of Pasedena, with whom she had two sons, Robert Freeman Ford and Todd Ford. The Timkens accumulated a huge art collection, which was divided at Mrs. Timken's death between the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Bibliography
1949
"W.R. Timken, Made Roller Bearings." The New York Times (13 June 1949): 19 [obituary].
1959
"Two Museums to Get Mrs. Timken's Art." The New York Times (27 October 1959): 39.
1959
"Wealthy Widow Found Dead Here." The New York Times (25 October 1959): 70 [obituary].
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.
