On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 1:38 PM Reuben Staley via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > 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.
I think that this raises licensing and privacy concerns, but I do think that we should think about how this could best be done respectfully.
