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Do-it-yourself web archiving

Tools and resources to create a web archive

Conifer
Conifer is a free (up to 5 GB) platform for creating and hosting web archives, maintained by Rhizome.

Webrecorder
Webrecorder is a suite of free open-source community-owned tools for creating and replaying web archives. Archiveweb.page allows users to capture web content and replayweb.page allows users to replay captured content.

Save Page Now - Archive.org
The “Save Page Now” feature allows users to instantly add a web page to Archive.org and create a permanent WayBack Machine URL.

Awesome Web Archiving - International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC)
Awesome Web Archiving is a curated list of tools and training resources to get started with web archiving, maintained by the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC).

Archiving your website - Artexte
Artexte has developed a one-page guide to creating a web archive using Conifer.

Training materials - International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC)
This free resource created by the IIPC provides a complete beginner's level training course in web archiving.

Spectrum Guidelines: File format recommendations by content type
These guidelines are intended for researchers depositing materials to Spectrum, Concordia University's open access research repository, and include recommendations for the preservation of web-based research output.

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