Archive.org

What is the Archive.org? It is the website for the not-for-profit organisation known as the Internet Archive. It was founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco.

The Internet Archive is really about storage and preservation of the internet and digital data. The Internet Archive downloads, indexes, and stores just about every website ever made on a periodic basis. This service is what they call the WayBack Machine (http://www.archive.org/web/web.php) and you can access its archive very easily. It is a useful tool for seeing older versions of your website, or for checking the content webpages that have gone offline.

You can also subscribe your organisation to one of the internet Archives services call Archive-IT (http://www.archive-it.org). This service enables you to archive and preserve your organisations materials using online tools provided by the service.

In addition to this the Internet Archive makes available storage space for free for just about any data you may wish to upload. You can store software, video, text, audio, you name it. There are some small requirements, the most obvious being that you should own, or have clearance to contribute, the works. You must also license the work under a Creative Commons (or similar) license. This is usually not a problem if you made the work yourself, but maybe an issue if you used copyrighted material (eg, music within a video) within your work, or you are uploading something someone else made.

The Internet Archive is very very useful and will become more more important as a historical resource as time goes by.

What is Creative Commons?

When you record a song, write a book, or produce any creative work you own the copyright of that work. This means that the author has the legal right to stop others using that work, it also means that only the author has the legal right to let others use the work.

The traditional way to manage this copyright ownership of creative works has been to stop any use of the work by default. If someone wants to use a copyrighted work, under these 'default' copyright terms they cannot do so until they have the authors explicit permission. The author can then stipulate under what conditions the work can be used. They might, for example, sell the work or allow it to be used for a fee.

Until recently this was the way copyright was managed for almost all creative works.

Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation that has created a very interesting method for more nuanced management of copyrights. In 2002 Creative Commons published a series of licenses that could be applied to copyrighted works which enabled a more permissive copyright management. These licenses are intended to permit a more open flow of information and synergise creative growth by allowing others to use the work without the authors explicit permission given certain conditions. These conditions can be very generous.

The most liberal of the Creative Commons licenses allows anyone to use the material for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial. The least permissive license enables the non-commercial use of a work as long as it is unaltered and credited. There are many licenses that occupy the ground between these two points and Creative Commons has developed a reasonably easy method for describing these. The main variables in these licenses have been broken down into the following terms :

Attribution (by): Anyone may use the work if they credit the author.

Noncommercial or NonCommercial (nc): Anyone can use the work for non-commercial purposes.

No Derivative Works or NoDerivs (nd): Anyone can use the work as long as they do not alter it.

ShareAlike (sa): Anyone can use the work but can only distribute derivatives if it is done so under the same license as the original work.

Creative Commons uses these terms to describe its licenses. The most popular include :

1. Attribution alone (by)
   
2. Attribution + Noncommercial (by-nc)
   
3. Attribution + WhatIs.NoDerivs (by-nd)
   
4. Attribution + WhatIs.ShareAlike (by-sa)­
   
5. Attribution + Noncommercial + WhatIs.NoDerivs (by-nc-nd)
   
6. Attribution + Noncommercial + WhatIs.ShareAlike (by-nc-sa)

If you wish to apply one of these licenses to your work you should visit the Creative Commons website (http://www.creativecommons.org) for information on how to do this.

Registering

To use the data storage services of the Internet Archive you need to first register. Its a simple process, first visit the URL http://www.archive.org/

This will bring up the front page. At the top you will see a navigation bar, click on 'join us'.

You then get a form to fill out with your details and some terms of use. When you are happy with the terms enter your email, password, and name that you want to be displayed with your entries. A screen name is the 'public' name that will be displayed when you write reviews etc. Even though the form says the 'screen name' is optional, it isn't, so make sure you supply one. When these details are completed click 'Get Library Card'.

If all is well you will get a confirmation screen that will refresh within 10 seconds and take you back to the home page. You should then be logged in under your new account name. To check if you are logged in at any time look at the right of the screen where you clicked 'join us' and you should see your screen name displayed:

Upload a Video File

You can upload video files to the Internet Archive for permanent storage. This is a very useful service as the tools are quite easy to use, and you can link to the video file from your webpage / blog (etc) or send a link to the video via email. In addition the service transcodes (converts) the video file into other video file formats. This may be useful if, for example, you have a video file you wish to have converted to flash for hosting in your blog etc.

You can upload video in a number of ways, the easiest way is through their web interface. Please note - this method isn't so good for files that are 50MB or more, and it is also not such a good method if your internet connection is 'slow' or unstable.

To access the upload interface first click on "Upload" from the front page of the Internet Archive :

You should see the following :



Although the text suggests that this process is good for files up to 100MB I would recommend for files larger than 50MB you should try the more advanced (files over 100MB') option.

Enter a Title for your work in the text field and click the "Next" button. You will be presented with a screen with a lot of information to be filled in :



There are many sections here to be filled out, the below is a short explanation of each section.

1. Title (required): This should already contain the Title you provided from the previous page.
   
2. Description (required): Enter into the Description box as much information as you think will be relevant to people who find your video. This information can include an overview of the video, who made it, what it is about, etc. In fact you could put anything here but its best to write a nice clear summary of the content.
3. Keyword(s) (required): In the Keyword(s) box add as many words keywords as you think are relevant. 'Keywords' are words that describe or are related to the content of your video. This also helps people find your video when they use the Internet Archive search. Make sure that the list of keywords is 'comma separated. This means you should make a list like this: "movie, food, cat, italy" not "movie food cat italy".
   
4. Author (optional) : who made the movie? List as many people as you like here.
   
5. File to Upload : Under the section "File to upload" click on the Browse button and locate the file you want to upload on your hard drive, then click OK.
6. Under "Type of item" choose '(movies)' by clicking on the little movie camera icon.

Now we get to the licensing...click on "Choose License". A pop up window will appear :



I have chosen the above options for a licence but you can choose the options you prefer. If you would like to know more about Creative Commons licenses there is excellent information on their website (http://www.creativecommons.org).

Click on the options you prefer and when you are happy click "Select a License" button and click "Proceed" on the next page.

The pop-up window should then disappear leaving the license choice listed in the original web page :



If you do not wish to upload the file (for example you may be just testing this process) then click on "This is a test item". If you really want to upload the content to the Internet Archive, then leave this item unclicked.

Then click "Upload files".

The whole screen goes dark to let you know that you need to wait while the file uploads.

   

That's it!

Uploading via ftp

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a good method for uploading larger files to the Internet Archive. Web upload forms are very unstable and so if you are experiencing difficulties uploading with the form, you have a slow internet connection, or you have a file that is over 50Mb then it is advisable to use ftp to upload your files.

FTP is a way of 'connecting' and transferring a file (or files) from your computer to the Internet Archive computers. The file will then be available through the Internet Archives website for others to download and play. FTP can be tricky if you are not used to it, but with practice it becomes as easy as copying files from one directory/folder to another on your own computer. There are also many many FTP softwares so it is tricky to describe exactly how this process should work unless you use the same FTP software as I use to describe the process. For this reason we will use FireFTP which is a 'Add-on' to FireFox Browser and it looks and works the same for OSX, Windows, and Linux computers.

It would pay to first follow the instructions for installing and using FireFTP located here :

http://flossmanuals.net/firefox

Visit the Internet Archive

Visit the Internet Archive homepage and log in (I will assume you already have an account with Internet Archive). On the front page, after you have logged in, you will see a "Upload" button :

Click on this and you will be forwarded to the following :

Click on the "files over 100MB" and the next screen will appear :

In the "Choose and Identifier" section enter a name for your video and click "Create item!". Please remember not to have any spaces in the name (use underscores instead of spaces). Additionally, the system checks to see if there is already a file with the same identifier and if that name is already used you will be asked to try another one. So try and choose a name that you think no one else would have already used. When you have clicked on "Create item!" you should see the following :

After a few seconds the following information will appear :

You may want to read the FAQ listed if you feel you need more information.

There also follows some instructions for uploading via an Internet Explorer window, but skip this and read the section titled "Using an FTP Client" :

'yaya@nowhere.com'  is of course a fake email address I am using only for the purposes of this material, you will see your own email address in this place.

So, now you are ready to upload the file via FTP and you have all the details to do it...now you just have to know what FTP is. Well we will look at a FTP software (also known as 'FTP Clients') called FireFtp. It is an extension of the Firefox web browser.

FireFTP

If you do not already ahve FireFox and FireFTP installed then ow is the time to follow the instructions here :

http://flossmanuals.net/firefox

The important thing to remember is that the details you need to make the FTP connection are listed on the "Using an FTP Client" section you just saw :

Host - the address of the Internet Archive server you must upload to. In the above it is listed in red
Username - your email address as listed in point 2 above
Password - this is the same as the password you use to log into the Internet Archive

So now click on "Tools" in the FireFox menu and choose "FireFTP" :

In your browser you will see FireFTP looking a little like this :

Now click on "(Create an Account)", and you will see the following:

Now we enter the details we already have. You can put anything in "Account Name" as this only helps us identify this 'FTP account' if we have many accounts. The other details must be the details you have from the Internet Archive page. If I was to follow the example details we have my Account Manager screen would look like this :

Now press "OK" and the details of your new account should be in the FIreFTP interface :

Press "Connect" in the above and on the right side of FireFTP you will see the folder appear with the name of the item you created :

Simply drag the item(s) you want transfered on the left (the side that lists all your files and folders) to the folder on the right (the folder with same name as the 'identifier' you created).

When the file is uploaded close the connection by clicking on "Disconnect" in the top bar of FireFtp.

 

Adding MetaData

When the file (or files) has been uploaded then go back to the Internet Archive page and click on the link it has for you :

If you click on the link it reminds you to close your FTP connection when you have uploaded your file.

It may ask you to wait while it checks in the video. Then you should see this screen.

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Click on the link it gives you to classify your video. Choose "Open Source Movies".

Click on "Submit movie".

Add More Details

You should now see the following : 

Add all relevant details here. Remember to add as much information as you can as it really helps people find your file. Think how long it took to make the video when you do this, try to make it worth that time by getting as many people as you can to find and watch it here.

Don't be scared by this form just fill in as much as you can and leave the rest.

Click on "Submit" when you are done.



You should get a message like the one above.

Now click on the link at the end for the "details page" and after a few minutes the Internet Archive page for your video file should be shown with the information :

You can see that there are a few ways to play the video. You can click on the Image in the center of the page for a Flash Video version of the video. Or you can click on the files listed on the left of the page, under "View movie".

If you upload a high quality file, you will see that it re-encodes (converts) it into different formats and presents different options of different quality for use for preview files or high / low bandwidth use. An example is shown below.

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Installing ccPublisher on Windows

Software name : ccPublisher
Homepage : http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcPublisher
Software version used for this installation : 2.2.1
Operating System use for this installation : Microsoft Windows (2000)
Recommended Hardware : 200 Mhz processor (CPU) minimum

Point your web browser to  http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcPublisher

Click on the link to the set up file underneath the 'Windows' heading.

This will begin the download process. When it has downloaded, locate the file and double-click to start the installation process. You will see this screen :

Click 'Next' when you see the first page of the Installation Wizard.
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Click 'I Agree' to the Licence agreement.
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Unless you have a better location to install ccPublisher in just click 'Install'. The software will now begin the installation process.
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Click 'Next >' On the  'Installation Complete' page.
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Click 'Finish' on the final screen.
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Now ccPublisher is installed you can start it from your Start Menu. ­

 

 

Using the CC Publisher

You can upload content to Archive.org using their 'CC Publisher' tool. Using this method the files can be of almost any format and size, and the process is quite straight forward.

Before you upload your file you will have to have first decided upon some information to include with the file. This information about your content, eg. Title, Subject, Author etc. This kind of information is called metadata. Many services that have video hosting require this metadata to be supplied. This information makes the archive more useful and searchable.

There are a few ways of uploading the video content and adding the metadata to Archive.org. We'll look at the CC Publisher. To do this you first need to register with archive.org and login.

Step 1 : Open ccPublisher

First open your installed ccPublisher, you should see a start screen like this :

Simply put, this is the introduction screen. The above image is from the Windows version of ccPublisher but it should look almost the same in Linux and MacOSX.  The steps are outlined in the interface for uploading content. It seems simple, and it pretty much is, except nothing new is ever simple, right?

So, in my installation of ccPublisher the "How does this work" button doesn't work. So there is nothing to do here really than progress by pushing Next

Step 2 : Select Your Files

In the Windows version you can 'drag and drop' files from your computer onto this screen of ccPublisher. I would recommend if you machine seems a little slow that instead you click on 'Browse' which will open a window enabling you to search through your computer for the right file or files. You can add as many files as you wish. Its important to remember that you can only create one description and use one license for the content you upload each time. So if you upload 12 items at once they will all be put in the same place on the Internet Archive with the same title, description etc.

If you want to upload multiple files with different descriptions or different versions of the Creative Commons licenses then you should go through this entire process for each separate file or group of files.

When you add a file you should see it listed in the window like so :

When you have selected all your files then press Next :

Step 3 : Add Information About Your Files

The information you add here gets added to the Internet Archive as 'metadata' which can be read by people wanting to find out about the content. The information is also used to help people find your material on the Internet Archive using the search function. The fields mean the following :

Copyright Holder

The copyright holder is the person who made the work or owns the copyright. Its important to remember that although Creative Commons is a more liberal approach to sharing content it does not avoid copyright, it merely gives you, the owner of the work, more control of who can use, modify, and re-use the content. So someoneowns the copyright for the work and you put that name in this field.

Copyright Year

The year the content was created. 

Title of Work

Just the name of your work.  

Work Format

A 'format' refers to what type content (or files) you are contributing as defined by the broad headings : Audio, Video, Image, Text, Interactive, Other. It might be that you have multiple different types of files involved with the same content. A video file might have, for example, text files used for subtitles and images used for cover art. Just choose the general category in this case.

Description

A description of what your content is. The cleaer you make this the more useful it is for people who are reading about your content for the first time. 

Keywords

Keywords are the 'search terms' that will assist the Internet Archive in finding your content when users search the archive.You can put multiple terms here but make sure they are separated by a comma for each term.

When you have finished all the fields press Next

Step 4 : Choose A License

This screen might take a second to download as ccPublisher has to connect to the Internet Archives servers to find out the information about the latest available Creative Commons licenses. 

Generally speaking, content on the Internet Archive is made available by the copyright owner under Creative Commons licenses. Either you know exactly which license the content is already available under, or you get to choose the license using this screen. The choices are simple, at the the first drop down box 'License Class' you must first of all decide whether you wish to use Creative Commons, dedicate the content to the Public Domain (US law only), or use the Sampling License (only available for some countries).

With each choice ccPublisher will show you a link to the 'Selected License'. If you click on that link then your web browser will display the information online about that license.I suggest you change the license options a few times and follow the links to read about the licenses before selecting the one you prefer. When you are happy press Next

Step 5 : Select File Format

 From the file format drop down menu choose the main type of file you are uploading and press Next.

Step 6 : Select Destination

 

we wish to upload the content to the Internet Archive so we choose the top option. Press Next after you ahve selected this option.

Step 7 : Confirm Identifier

The Internet Archive gives each file (or group of files) a unique name. If another item in the archive already has the name you must try another one and hope that isn't used. The URL you will be given to access the content in the Internet Archive will use this identifier, so its a good idea to try and use something that reads well if you intend to send the link to the content to other people.

Please note that on Windows I often had this stage of the process come up with a notice telling me to press 'Next' but there was no next button and there was also some muddled text in the screen :

If you see this also then press the 'maximise' icon (the image of a square at the top right of the window) twice and you will see the window retrun to looking how it should. Press Next BUT be careful as the next screen is sometimes slow to load and whatever you do, don't press the button twice out of frustration.

Step 8 : Enter Account Details

Here is where you enter your account details. Remember that your Internet Archive Username is notactually your username but the email address you used to register. When you have filled out these two fields press Next

Step 9 : Upload

This stage may take a while and you should see a screen like this reporting the progress of the upload :

When the process is complete ccPublisher will (subtly) tell you:

Press Next

Step 10 : Check Link

If all is well you will see something like the above. When you click on the link your browser will open the Internet Archive page with your content on it :

This is the permanent page for your content so you can send the URL out to whoever wants it.

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License

All chapters copyright of the authors (see below). Unless otherwise stated all chapters in this manual licensed with GNU General Public License version 2

This documentation is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this documentation; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Authors

WHAT IS CREATIVE COMMONS?
© adam hyde 2008

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CREDITS
© adam hyde 2006, 2007, 2008
Modifications:
mick fuzz 2007

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INSTALLING ON WINDOWS
© adam hyde 2007, 2008
Modifications:
Andrew Lowenthal 2008
mick fuzz 2007

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INTRODUCTION
© adam hyde 2006, 2007, 2008
Modifications:
mick fuzz 2007
Robert Hammer 2007

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REGISTER
© adam hyde 2007, 2008
Modifications:
Andrew Lowenthal 2008
mick fuzz 2007

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BROWSER VIDEO UPLOAD
© adam hyde 2007, 2008
Modifications:
Andrew Lowenthal 2008
mick fuzz 2007

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UPLOADING
© mick fuzz 2007
Modifications:
adam hyde 2007, 2008
Robert Hammer 2007

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FTP VIDEO UPLOAD
© adam hyde 2007, 2008
Modifications:
Andrew Lowenthal 2008
mick fuzz 2007

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11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

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