Comment on ArchiveBox or similar for shared archiving of research project
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 1 week ago
Check out Zotero: www.zotero.org
Zotero is an open source bibliography manager. It’s my main go to tool for generating works cited pages, like during essays.
But, it also has a browser extension, which can then download, and archive sites or academic articles you are adding to the sources. I would then use the fulltext search that zotero provides for easy searching of sources.
Unfortunately, it’s not hosted, which would make it difficult to share.
Stopwatch1986@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I have been using Zotero every day for more than two decades and somehow it hasn’t cross my mind. You may be on to something.
Zotero supports public and private shared bibliographies that you can subscribe to through the client or their web interface. Each entry contains the bibliographical details, notes attachments, file attachments and links to local files. It also captures webpages and metadata through the browser addon. The local database can be backed up and, if self-hosted, you have control. The best part is that academic researchers will be familiar with the software and process. One downside is that the cached file is not independently archived so it could be tampered with. Thanks for the idea.
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 1 week ago
You could have multiple researchers archive it and store copies independently. Then tampering would show up accross copies.
Unfortunately, central hosting doesn’t guarantee that it is tamper free. The host could be hacked, or could be malicious. Archive.is was caught tampering with their archived pages:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan…