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About this capture

COLLECTED BY

Organization:Archive Team

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 atarchiveteam.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 theWayback 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.

Collection:ArchiveBot: The Archive Team Crowdsourced Crawler

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.

There is a dashboard running for the archivebot process athttp://www.archivebot.com.

ArchiveBot's source code can be found athttps://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot.

TIMESTAMPS

Comma Separated Values (CSV) Standard File Format

The CSV ("Comma Separated Values") file format is often used to exchange data between differently similar applications.The CSV file format is useable by KSpread, OpenOffice Calc and Microsoft Excel spread-sheet applications.Many other applications support CSV in some fashion, to import or export data.CSV files have become obsolete due to XML data exchange possibilities (ie ODF, SOAP).

The CSV Format

Each record is one line - Line separator may be LF (0x0A) or CRLF (0x0D0A), a line separator may also be embedded in the data (making a record more than one line but still acceptable).
Fields are separated with commas. - Duh.
Leading and trailing whitespace is ignored - Unless the field is delimited with double-quotes in that case the whitespace is preserved.
Embedded commas - Fieldmust be delimited with double-quotes.
Embedded double-quotes - Embedded double-quote charactersmust be doubled, and the fieldmust be delimited with double-quotes.
Embedded line-breaks - Fieldsmust be surounded by double-quotes.
Always Delimiting - Fields may always be delimited with double quotes, the delimiters will be parsed and discarded by the reading applications.

CSV Files and Leading Zeros on Numeric Fields

Sometimes leading zero values are required in a data set and while the leading zeros are present in the data they are not displayed.In some software it's possible to force strict interpretation of the CSV field value with a leading = (equal) symbol.

This may chop the leading zero on some softwares, even if quoted.

0306703,0035866,NO_ACTION,06/19/20060086003,"0005866",UPDATED,06/19/2006

This incantation may convince that software to keep the leading zero.

="0306703",="0035866",NO_ACTION,06/19/2006="0086003",="0005866",UPDATED,06/19/2006

Acceptable CSV Mime Types

Sadly there is no definitive standard for this, here is a collection of types we've seen in use.

application/octet-stream
text/comma-separated-values - this is best
text/csv

CSV Examples

Here are some examples that demonstrate the rules above.Each sample describes the data and how the reading application should interpret it.

Standard Line

This shows three fields, each with simple data.

Edoceo, Seattle, WA

Whitespace

The first field should be interpreted by reading applications as[space]Edoceo[comma][space]Inc.[space].Whitespace also could include line breaks.

" Edoceo, Inc. ",Seattle,WA

Embedded Commas

The first field should be interpreted by reading applications asEdoceo[comma][space]Inc.

"Edoceo, Inc.",Seattle,WA