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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

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20231203014041/https://oaspa.org/about/board/

Board

OASPA Board Members are appointed via an annual election process and serve for a term of 3 years. OASPA’s Articles of Association state that at least half of the number of board members must consist of representatives of members who obtain at least fifty per cent (50%) of their income from activities related to the publication of fully Open Access journals and fully Open Access books. Further details regarding the appointment of OASPA Board Members can be found here.

Board Members meet regularly both online and in person to discuss and direct the activities of OASPA to ensure our mission and purpose is fulfilled. As well as meetings, Board Members take an active role in the running of the association, which includes their participation in or assistance with events, committees and working groups.

The following individuals are recognised as members of the OASPA board:

Dominic Mitchell – DOAJ (until 2025) Chair
Bekah Darksmith – Public Library of Science (until 2024) Treasurer
Catherine Mitchell – California Digital Library (until 2025) Secretary
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei – punctum books (until 2024)
Rod Cookson – The Royal Society (until 2024)
Lucy Oates – Oxford University Press (until 2024)
Sara Bosshart – The Royal Society of Chemistry (until 2025)
Juan Pablo Alperin – Public Knowledge Project, PKP (until 2026)
Caroline Edwards – Open Library of Humanities (until 2026)
Susan Murray – African Journals Online (until 2026)
Sofie Wennström – Stockholm University Press (until 2026)

Conflict of Interest statements from Board Members can be found here.