On 5/4/20 11:09 AM, Nch via agora-discussion wrote:
This might already be known but Blob's Thesis Archive [1] appears to have left
this realm. It was not captured on the wayback machine. Luckily, PSS has
captured all of the theses that were stored there [2]. In the future we might
consider creating a proper taskforce or office for ensuring record
preservation. In the meantime there's some steps we can autonomously take to
prevent something from being truly lost:
* Upload any privately held records you have to somewhere public, so they can
survive your absence
* Create wayback snapshots [3] or new public records for any aging archives. If
the owner of an archive is not an active player, we should consider those
records at risk of disappearing at any time.
* Consider downloading copies of documents and git repositories. More copies
means more chances of preservation.
Thanks to PSS for eir foresight, and pre-thanks to everyone that does their
part in preservation efforts.
I have copies of the uncompressed versions of everything linked to in
Zefram's archive. I wonder if we should upload the contents of any
historical records we find to github, license permitting, as another
layer of backup.
--
Trigon, Speaker of Agora
