[Air-L] the best way to archive web material?

[Adi Kuntsman]

Dear Sarah

I am using zotero which is a free add on to Firefox http://www.zotero.org/ 
Good thing about it: it takes captures of webpages as they are at any particular 
moment + creates info on URL, date of access etc (Zotero was originaly developed 
as a tool to create and share bibliographies)
Files are easy to organise into folders and subfolders, and I think there is an 
option to have your archive stored on zotero site , to be able to share (haven't 
explored this as I work along on my project)

Not so good thing: can't download videos. So you will need to download 
separately.

I am sure there are other, better ways, so look forward to other responses
Adi

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Dr. Adi Kuntsman 
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow 
Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures 
The University of Manchester 
Second Floor, Arthur Lewis Building, room 2.007 
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK 
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html 
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From: Sarah Oates <s.oates at lbss.gla.ac.uk>
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Sent: Thu, October 21, 2010 3:25:47 PM
Subject: [Air-L] the best way to archive web material?

Hello and apologies if this has been asked recently or seems a bit basic! 

Does anyone have a recommendation for software to archive web material? I am 
heading a project to study political activism on the Russian internet and we 
need to store a range of different types of web pages across time ... I can't 
even get my PC to store even a small amount with full images. My research 
partner in Ukraine can, but she has a Mac (not an option available at my 
university right now). I have a small budget to buy some software, although 
freeware suggestions always appreciated. I want to have the archive complete so 
that we can work with it, share it with other researchers, go back to it as 
necessary, etc., so I really want to have full graphics etc. Optimally, it would 
be something that could do automatic crawls and downloads as well, although as 
we are tending to focus on relatively short periods of intense interest around 
particularly issues/events, we don't need a long-term crawl system. 


Suggestions from this clever and useful list most welcome, although currently 
this list is making me sad that I am not in Sweden to meet people at exciting 
venues and hear what I am sure is some great work (: 


Sincerely
Sarah 

Sarah Oates
Professor of Political Communication
School of Social and Political Sciences
Adam Smith Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8RT

Email: sarah.oates at glasgow.ac.uk
Website: www.media-politics.com<http://www.media-politics.com/> 
Telephone: (0)141 330 5124
The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401

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