Hi everyone,
So, I've been thinking about setting up something for archiving useful data for a few years now, like, a "what would be needed to to reboot civilization" kind of thing (wikipedia, scientific research, etc), but never took the time for it.
Then the "let's save sci-hub data" event came, still couln't find the time to set up anything.
Well, I guess the current events are as good an occasion as I'm gonna get, so, let's get this rolling ! :)
Skills and resources I have to offer
Definitely not a lot of time/energy, so, keeping track of resources that need saving, crawling stuff, etc, not much.
I'm mostly thinking about hosting stuff. Self-hosting, in particular.
I can put together a rig with a lot storage, to provide one more copy of threatened data.
Keep it available over torrent. Or web. Or over Tor.
Or a mirror of a website indexing where this data is.
Or one more IP to crawl data from.
Or anything else along those lines that would be more useful ? The exact form is precisely what I'm asking for here :)
Relevant projects I know of (but have no idea which ones could need what I'm offering above) :
- The Internet Archive
- Software Heritage
- Safeguarding Research
- Possibly Kiwix ?
Conclusion
I hope this subreddit is the right place to ask for this, please let me know otherwise !
Thank you in advance :)