Archive-It is a 100% ResourceShelf favorite and to take it a step further, Archive-It and similar tools will become commonplace moving forward as part of the growing importance of personal information management.
Why? As content continues to boom, more dynamic content comes online, and those who like to cause trouble produce mayhem, making sure that the web page or pages you need (along with audio files, images, etc.) are permanently archived (for personal use) as they appeared on the day you looked at the page(s) for the first time and for several visits after that will become part of your everyday web research toolkit.
From a historical perspective, capturing and archiving pages can show the evolution not only of a company, school or even a personal web site but it also can document the growth or non-growth of organizations and people.
Because the web is so ephemeral, it's essential that we not only create permanent records of content for groups (schools, companies, non-profits, government, etc) but also for individuals who can develop a collection for their own permanent web record.
Archive-It is accessible via the cloud which makes it available from any web-based computer or web-enabled device. So, even if you are away from your own computer, archived content should be easy to get to. Sure you could do it locally HTTrack (Windows, Mac, or Linux; Freeware) and/or Get Left (Windows, Mac, or Linux; Freeware) and in some cases creating a local archive is the way to go .
However, having a service like Archive-It do it for you, can save a great deal of effort, time (their crawlers can move and capture quickly), and as we mentioned a moment ago, users can access their archive from any Internet accessible computer and the material can be shared with those you want to have access. Plus, if you don't back up your files like you should )-: and you're hard drive quits, it's all gone.
One more note, unlike The Wayback Machine, content that's been archived in one or more of Archive-It's 1,052 public collections (as of today) is keyword searchable.
Archive-It: In Their Own Words:
Archive-It, a subscription service from the Internet Archive, allows institutions to build and preserve collections of born digital content. Through our user-friendly web application, Archive-It partners can harvest, catalog, manage, and browse their archived collections. Collections are hosted at the Internet Archive data center and are accessible to the public with full-text search.
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
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