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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: Archive Team: URLs

TIMESTAMPS

Closed field operations and related field activities

The OSCE flag is lowered in the Croatian capital, marking the formal closure of the OSCE's office, Zagreb, 17 January 2012.

(Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia/Marija Kundek) Photo details

An OSCE field operation closes down or a related field activity discontinues its work upon expiration of its mandate or upon adoption by the Permanent Council of a decision requesting its closure. The OSCE’s Conflict Prevention Centre is responsible for planning the establishment, restructuring and closures of field operations or related field activities.

The following is the list of closed OSCE field operations and related field activities:

The Permanent Council may take a decision to change the mandate of a field operation:

In 1995, the OSCE Mission in Sarajevo was transformed into the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina;
In 2006, the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, formerly the OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, was transformed into the OSCE Mission to Serbia;
In 2006, the OSCE Centre in Tashkent was transformed into the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan;
In 2010, the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje was transformed into the OSCE Mission to Skopje;
In 2014, the OSCE Office in Baku was transformed into the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku;
In 2015, the OSCE Centre in Astana, formerly the OSCE Centre in Almaty, was transformed into the OSCE Programme Office in Astana;
In 2017, the OSCE Centre in Bishkek was transformed into the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek; and
In 2017, the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, formerly the OSCE Mission to Tajikistan and the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe, was transformed into the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe.