Dear Sarah I am using zotero which is a free add on to Firefox http://www.zotero.org/ Good thing about it: it takes captures of webpages as they are at any particular moment + creates info on URL, date of access etc (Zotero was originaly developed as a tool to create and share bibliographies) Files are easy to organise into folders and subfolders, and I think there is an option to have your archive stored on zotero site , to be able to share (haven't explored this as I work along on my project) Not so good thing: can't download videos. So you will need to download separately. I am sure there are other, better ways, so look forward to other responses Adi -- Dr. Adi Kuntsman Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures The University of Manchester Second Floor, Arthur Lewis Building, room 2.007 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com ________________________________ From: Sarah Oates <s.oates@lbss.gla.ac.uk> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Sent: Thu, October 21, 2010 3:25:47 PM Subject: [Air-L] the best way to archive web material? Hello and apologies if this has been asked recently or seems a bit basic! Does anyone have a recommendation for software to archive web material? I am heading a project to study political activism on the Russian internet and we need to store a range of different types of web pages across time ... I can't even get my PC to store even a small amount with full images. My research partner in Ukraine can, but she has a Mac (not an option available at my university right now). I have a small budget to buy some software, although freeware suggestions always appreciated. I want to have the archive complete so that we can work with it, share it with other researchers, go back to it as necessary, etc., so I really want to have full graphics etc. Optimally, it would be something that could do automatic crawls and downloads as well, although as we are tending to focus on relatively short periods of intense interest around particularly issues/events, we don't need a long-term crawl system. Suggestions from this clever and useful list most welcome, although currently this list is making me sad that I am not in Sweden to meet people at exciting venues and hear what I am sure is some great work (: Sincerely Sarah Sarah Oates Professor of Political Communication School of Social and Political Sciences Adam Smith Building University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8RT Email: sarah.oates@glasgow.ac.uk Website: www.media-politics.com<http://www.media-politics.com/> Telephone: (0)141 330 5124 The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/