PUBLIC MARKS from Spone with tag archivage

Camlistore is a way to store, sync, share, model and back up content

ThinkUp captures your posts, replies, retweets, friends, followers, and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. We'll be adding more networks in the future. ThinkUp stores your social data in a database you control, and makes it easy to search, sort, filter, export, and visualize in useful ways.

As Twitter, Facebook, and other forms of social media grow more and more prevalent in society at large, so does their potential importance to scholars and others who aim to understand the world of the early 21st century. In order to reach this potential, archivists, librarians, historians, members of industry, and representatives of government must develop new tools, methods, and standards for preserving social media resources. Organized by the University of Mary Washington (UMW) and the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University, this one-day, unconference-style workshop aims to explore these questions more fully than has been done before and begin formulating some answers.

What would you lose if your Gmail, Flickr or Facebook were deleted? Do you have all of your photos and important emails backed up? Or would you lose them forever? If your photos, emails, documents, blog posts, friends lists etc are important to you, you should be keeping a copy of this information offline.

301Works.org an initiative of the Internet Archive director, Stowe Boyd