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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.

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Migration

The OSCE seeks to transform the migration challenge into an opportunity for mobilizing co-operation and solidarity, centred around human rights.

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In accordance with the OSCE's mission to build bridges between countries and peoples, and to find ways to replace confrontation with dialogue, the migration phenomenon is increasingly at the centre of the organization's action.

Against a backdrop of growing movements of people into and across the OSCE region, the OSCE's participating States and its Mediterranean and Asian Partners, including key countries of destination, transit and origin countries, have a clear stake in transforming the challenge of refugee assistance and migration management into an opportunity for mobilizing co-operation and solidarity, with human rights at the centre of this action.

The OSCE is committed to combating individuals and organizations that exploit people on the move, contributing to the fight against organized crime, including human trafficking, and supporting successful integration and the expansion of legal channels. The organization is also committed to promoting tolerance and non-discrimination, including by building on its track record in dealing with national minorities.

The OSCE provides support in capacity-building, policy advice, awareness raising and advocacy, as well as dialogue support.

The OSCE’s Secretariat works together with the field operations in conducting a range of activities, according to respective mandates. Key policy areas in addressing migration include:

Regulating migration: border management, travel document security, countering transnational threats, including human trafficking along migration routes;
Facilitating legal migration: labour migration governance and research, data collection and harmonization;
Supporting people and communities: freedom of movement, tolerance and non-discrimination, integration, refugee referral.