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.
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.
The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20160718180520/https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/federal-council/political-system-of-switzerland.html
The People are the highest political authority in the Swiss state. This fundamental principle characterises the entire Swiss political system. Swiss citizens can bring their opinions to bear at federal, cantonal and communal levels: they can vote on a wide variety of issues and elect their representatives to the Federal Assembly.
No other country gives its citizens more opportunities to express their views in popular votes on more issues than in Switzerland. The People are sovereign, the highest political authority in the land. All Swiss citizens with full legal capacity – over 5.2 million men and women - have the right to vote.
Politics plays out at three levels: the Confederation, the cantons and the communes can each decide autonomously on certain matters. The principle of subsidiarity applies: a higher authority should only perform tasks that cannot be performed by a lower authority.
Switzerland has a wide range of political parties: some parties are represented in the Federal Assembly, while others exist only in the communes or cantons. Most parties in Switzerland are associations, funded primarily by membership contributions and donations.
Three branches of state
Switzerland's political system is structured according to the principle of the separation of powers. The powers of state are divided among three independent branches: the legislature, the executive and the judiciary.
In addition to having the right to vote on proposals and to elect representatives, Swiss citizens have the right to have their say at all three levels of state, and can therefore have a considerable influence on political matters. For example, they can launch an initiative or request a referendum, or submit a petition.
The Swiss Confederation – a brief guide
‘The Swiss Confederation – a brief guide’ contains information about Switzerland’s political system, the administration and its judicial authorities. In addition to explaining the workings of the state it also provides an insight into the activities of the Federal Administration. ‘The Swiss Confederation – a brief guide’ is available as a brochure and as an app for tablets and smartphones.
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.
