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

WL Wong wwon8281 at uni.sydney.edu.au
Thu Oct 21 14:16:18 PDT 2010


Sarah

I use WebCite http://www.webcitation.org/ and Evernote http://www.evernote.com/.

Cheers
WL
On 22/10/2010, at 1:33 AM, Adi Kuntsman wrote:

> 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
> 
> -- 
> 
> 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 
> http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 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
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> 
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