The Cambridge-MIT Institute

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 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.

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 at http://www.archivebot.com.

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

TIMESTAMPS

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20151031161723/http://www.cmi.cam.ac.uk/

The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) was established in 2000 to explore how academics, industrialists and educators might work together to stimulate competitiveness, productivity and entrepreneurship.

Funded through the predecessors to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, with additional financial support from the public and private sectors, CMI set out to enhance competitiveness and innovation by improving knowledge exchange between universities and industry. CMI worked with over 100 universities and more than 1000 companies and public enterprises on a series of challenging projects involving education, research and knowledge exchange.

Working with other UK institutions, CMI encouraged wide participation in an active programme of open events, in order to share lessons learned and provide insight into effective practices that impact productivity, competitiveness and entrepreneurship. A clear message from the CMI experience is that the constructive interplay of education and research, and formal and informal engagement with industry and enterprise has the greatest potential to substantially enhance knowledge exchange and accelerate innovation.

The partnership between Cambridge and MIT led to many enduring personal, professional and institutional links. CMI activities are now fully embedded within the two institutions, and its key messages continue to be disseminated. A summary of CMI's activities can be found in its publications.

Publications

Accelerating Innovation by Crossing Boundaries: This report summarises the key activities and lessons from the CMI between 2000 and 2006.
Working in Partnership: Many significant activities have emerged from the CMI and have established an independent life; some of these are described in this report.

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