After "finishing" my Daft Punk Article / Interview Database at the end of 2020, I had every intention to go through each entry and make sure they were backed up on the Internet Archive / Wayback Machine but I kept pushing it off for future-me to deal with. Fast forward to the beginning of 2022 and I realized that I needed to update several things on my website that had become broken / obsolete (I'll sometimes go months without touching this website so every once in a while I need to check and make sure that the links and playlists still work). I had to update several of my spreadsheets because of broken links and it dawned on me that I had never made a proper spreadsheet for the Article / Interview Database like I had for all of my other "databases." So on February 10th, 2022 I got to work creating the spreadsheet and finally backing everything up.
My main goal was to make sure every entry was on the Internet Archive / Wayback Machine so that the links would be less likely to break. Another goal of mine was to back up and organize everything on an external hard drive with the intention to share this master folder so that even if the links on the spreadsheet died, you could still read, listen to, or watch these interviews if you had the folder saved on your computer or an external hard drive. But doing all of this turned out to be much more time intensive than I thought. My process looked like this: - Copy and past article / interview link into the wayback machine - Sort through a few of the years to find the best version that is archived - Archive the page if it is not already archived - Copy and paste the archived link onto the spreadsheet AND my website - Move the unarchived link to the "alt link" section beside the entry in case people want to view it that way - Download an image, PDF, mp3, or mp4 of the article / interview and put it in the master folder - Download a QR code and .mht file leading to the page in case people who have the master folder want to view the article / interview on their phone or in a browser. - Repeat several hundred times This took me several months and I was burnt out afterwards. But I wasn't even done yet because there were many entries that couldn't be saved on the Wayback Machine for one reason or another. These images, PDFs, mp3s, and mp4s would have to be manually uploaded to archive.org and then I could use those links on the spreadsheet and on my website. This seemed daunting to me because I didn't have much experience uploading to archive.org and I had heard somewhere that it was a slow process so once again I started pushing it off for future-me to deal with. A few more months passed and about 3 weeks ago I decided it was finally time to finish. It didn't take as long as I thought it would to upload the remaining entries to archive.org but it did take a concerted effort. Now every entry in the database is archived online AND in a master folder which people can download via Google Drive HERE. It is important that people download the spreadsheet in case my website were to ever be deleted. It is important that people download the master folder in case any of the links on the spreadsheet die or the content is taken down. Saving these documents will help prevent the articles and interviews from being lost for good. The more people that save a copy, the better so feel free to share.
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AuthorI am a massive Daft Punk fan and collector. I enjoy researching and writing about their career and I have a bachelor's degree in history. Professional inquiries email me here. Archives
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