Looking for help archiving a blog

[Tanya Cunningham]

Hello Folks,

I am thinking of undertaking the task of archiving a friend's blog. No clue where to start or what the options are. I'm interested in hiring someone to help me figure out the best route and doing it.

I will answer as many questions as I can, but I also don't know all the questions to ask.

Tanya Cunningham

[John Hess]

What are your goals?  The internet archive (archive.org) is a wonderful resource and also the first place most folks would go to find an archived version.  

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[Nick Terrible]

Tanya,

Digitally or Physically?

I know you can get blogs printed into books.  That is a great long term archive.  

I can try to get details if you want.

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[Dennis Adams]

Some platforms have an “export” capability that gives you back your content a big zip file. Check your particular platform to see if it has this capability. If not, you’ll need to manually (or maybe semi-automatically?) scrape it. 

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[David Nelson]

Archive.org is a good idea. I would worry about what happens when they get tired of the expense of it.

"I assume" (and you can stop right there if you want) that a "blog" is a "web structure." Back in the day, I used an app that (with a name like "Web Copier") that would copy the entire tree structure of the website it was pointed at, downloading each piece into a local mirror, oftentimes in parallel. It could be set to run at a priority that made it innocuous, and thus could run for a few to many hours to complete.

That's what I'd do, and then I'd copy that whole tree structure onto a DVD. Or nine. And I could take it anywhere, even to places with no internet. 

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[John Hess]

> I would worry about what happens when they get tired of the expense of it.

Reasonable.  You might expect them to be subject to the same entropic forces that condemned the defunct sites they’re archiving. 

I’m a bit more bullish on them.  They’ve got a stewardship/archivist approach and think of themselves as a library.  This isn’t googles “cache” which got dropped the moment it was convenient.  The archive is the mission. 

One of their thrusts as of late is decentralization (of the archive and the web broadly).  I’ve even been to their DWeb Camp twice (perhaps why I’m a partisan!).  One philosophy you’ll hear around there and might think about for your case is LOCKSS (lots of copies keeps stuff safe).  

Hard drives fail, organizations close, and libraries burn.  So make more than one bet.  

One last plug — they use, make, and maintain a lot of tools for archiving web sites.  There are a lot of details of future proofing they’ve thought through so even if you go DIY check out e.g. WARC (

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WARC_(file_format)).  

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