The Hanzo Archives Wordpress plugin is something I’d be very excited to use. Ironically, it’s disappeared from the web (though the blog post hasn’t):
We’ve released a Wordpress Plugin which automatically archives anything you link to in your blog posts; it also adds a ‘perma-permalink’ for the archived version adjacent to each original link.
An Amazon Web [...]

Posted June 9, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: archive, Hanzo Archives, link rot, perma-permalink, permalink, plugin, web archive, wordpress. Be the first one.

Jessamyn pointed out the dust up over the dissapearing of PaperOfRecord.com, a historical newspaper archive.

Posted May 4, 2009 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: archive, historical archive, history, libraries, newspaper, paperofrecord.com. One Comment.

It couldn’t be much easier. I’d previously posted command line instructions, but it turns out that there’s a huge number of people who don’t know the easy way: just CTRL-click on the file and select “Create Archive…” You’ll also find the option in the File menu. Either way, you’ll end up with both the original [...]

Posted April 26, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: apple, archive, how to, instructions, mac, mac os X, os x, zip, zip file. 5 Comments.

For a long time I was a big fan of Dantz Retrospect Backup. For while I was so committed that I would do an incremental backup of my laptop and most every other computer in my house every day, but I’ve been using it one way or another since 1999 or 2000 or so. All [...]

Posted March 21, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: archive, backup, backup software, dantz, dantz retrospect, digital preservation, emc, emc insignia, mac, preservation, retrospect. 2 Comments.

The market for large-format flatbed scanners is shrinking, so products turn over slowly and development is far behind my expectations. That said, the Epson GT-1500 doesn’t look like a bad choice for tight budgets. It has a relatively low maximum resolution of only 600DPI, but has the highest claimed scan speed of 30 seconds at [...]

Posted January 30, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: archive, archives, digital archive, document imaging, large format scanner, libraries, library, scanner, scanners. 2 Comments.

I mentioned SHERPA a while ago:
SHERPA is a large consortial UK project that’s attempting to build an academic archive/repository for 20 institutions, including the British Library and Cambridge University. [link added]
I bring this up again now because they’ve got some advice for people on the subject of digital archives. They recommend EPrints, an open source [...]

Posted January 26, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: academic repository, archive, digital archive, dspace, eprints, institutional repository, libraries, library, repositories, sherpa. 4 Comments.

MIT has DSpace, their solution to save, share, and search the collected work of their faculty and students (in use by 115 public sites). Now Royce just shared with me this presentation by Bill Hubbard, the SHERPA project manager at University of Nottingham.
What’s SHERPA? The name is an acronym for Securing a Hybrid Environment for [...]

Posted December 20, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: archive, arxive, digital collections, dspace, institutional repository, libraries, library, mit, mit libraries, repository, sherpa, sherpa project, university of nottingham. One Comment.

Everybody else may know this, but MacOS X includes the command-line utility to make Windows-compatible ZIP files. It works a lot like tar, but without needing any switches.
> zip {target file} {source files}

tags: archive, command line, compression, mac, mac os X, tar, zip

Posted June 22, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: archive, command line, compression, mac, mac os X, tar, zip. 4 Comments.