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This is the main reason I adopted zotero for my citation manager - it saves a local version of the resources I want to cite, preventing link rot and paywall from obstructing returning to an old research topic.

If your bookmarking habit is article, rather than web-services, your bookmark manager needs a way of saving bookmarked content.




That helps you, but that doesn't help everyone else.

Consider asking Zotero to do full WARC captures, which you could then donate to the Internet Archive and have them be included in the Wayback Machine, which would benefit everyone.


Hi, the Zotero project is open source and non-profit, currently getting the majority of its funding from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Following the open source model, it depends on people like you to help out with coding new features. If doing full WARC captures is something that you feel is important, you might want to help out and contribute the necessary code. Zotero's code base is pretty approachable. I've personally submitted fixes to the project. Go here for more information on how to get involved: https://www.zotero.org/getinvolved/


Thinking about this further, this might also be a really useful tie-in for Wikipedia. It also increasingly relies on Web citations, many of which fail.

If cited material were automatically archived and submitted to TIA, this could be further useful. The fact that this is an inherent archival of information which is deemed relevant and citable is also worth noting.


They're starting to do this: http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/

We have started crawling the outlinks for every new article and update as they are made – about 5 million new URLs are archived every day. Now we have to figure out how to get archived pages back in to Wikipedia to fix some of those dead links. Kunal Mehta, a Wikipedian from San Jose, recently wrote a protoype bot that can add archived versions to any link in Wikipedia so that when those links are determined to be dead the links can be switched over automatically and continue to work. It will take a while to work this through the process the Wikipedia community of editors uses to approve bots, but that conversation is under way.


That's great news.


Oooh! I like this.


I use Stache it stores screenshots and web archives perfect for this kinda stuff http://getstache.com


Hi! You could ask Stache, too, to do full WARC captures, which you could then donate to the Internet Archive and have them be included in the Wayback Machine, which would benefit everyone.


Is Stache mac only? and is there a way to change iCloud? e.g. I would prefer dropbox.


thanks, I hadn't heard of zotero before, so it is like evernote except the data is stored locally on your own computer?


It's intended as a reference manager for academics, but in addition to PDFs, you can also save other resources like web pages.

The interface isn't really designed for using it as an Evernote replacement, but for some use cases at least, it would be workable.




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