Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.
It's possible that you have themes or grammars from TextMate that you like and use and would like to convert to Atom. If so, you're in luck because there are tools to help with the conversion.
Converting a TextMate bundle will allow you to use its editor preferences, snippets, and colorization inside Atom.
Let's convert the TextMate bundle for the R programming language. You can find other existing TextMate bundles on GitHub.
You can convert the R bundle with the following command:
apm init --package language-r --convert https://github.com/textmate/r.tmbundle
You can now change directory into language-r to see the converted bundle. Once you link your package with the apm link command, your new package is ready to use. Launch Atom and open a .r file in the editor to see it in action!
This section will go over how to convert a TextMate theme to an Atom
theme.
TextMate themes use plist files while Atom themes use CSS or Less to style the UI and syntax in the editor.
The utility that converts the theme first parses the theme's plist file and then creates comparable CSS rules and properties that will style Atom similarly.
Download the theme you wish to convert, you can browse existing TextMate themes on the TextMate website.
Now, let's say you've downloaded the theme to ~/Downloads/MyTheme.tmTheme, you can convert the theme with the following command:
apm init --theme my-theme --convert ~/Downloads/MyTheme.tmTheme
You can then change directory to my-theme to see the converted theme.
Once your theme is installed you can enable it by launching Atom and opening the Settings View with the Atom > PreferencesFile > PreferencesEdit > Preferences menu item. Then select the "Themes" tab on the left side navigation. Finally, choose "My Theme" from the "Syntax Theme" dropdown menu to enable your new theme.
Your theme is now enabled, open an editor to see it in action!
