Restoring lost resources from the Web

Gemeinschaft / Community
#1

Introduction

This topic is about collecting and reporting about web content related to beekeeping and academic research which has unfortunately vanished from the web and its effort to restore it.

OSBH Forum

Update: It’s back again: https://community.osbeehives.com/

This is for the records.

Mirror of community.opensourcebeehives.org

After https://community.obensourcebeehives.org/ was going south, we tried to restore the valuable content from the Internet Archive and republished it at https://community.osbh.mirror.hiveeyes.org/.

News

2016

The OSBH Forum on https://community.obensourcebeehives.org/ went dead around summer 2016. Shortly after, https://community.akerkits.com/ was born. As this lacked many good articles, we tried to restore the forum from the Internet Archive (see above).

2018/2019

We just recognized https://community.akerkits.com/ isn’t available anymore, but https://community.osbeehives.com/ seems to be back again, maybe even containing the valuable content we have been trying to restore the other day? Enjoy!

Cheers to @Tristan_OSBH and @Aaron, happy to see the original OSBH forum is coming back to the community!

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Mirror of beedata.com

There’s also http://beedata.com which went down.
We saved it to https://beedata.com.mirror.hiveeyes.org/.

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Mirror of hivetool.org

Unfortunately, http://hivetool.org/ also went down recently in August 2018.
We are currently in the process of restoring it from the Internet Archive again.

Glad to see it’s still here: http://wiki.hivetool.org/, it just lacks the entrypoint from http://hivetool.org/.
Note there is also:

#5

Loss of www.neurobiologie.fu-berlin.de

Unfortunately, this invaluable site published by Prof. Dr. Randolf Menzel, Uwe Greggers and their team of the Neurobiology department at the Institute of Biology of the Free University of Berlin went down recently, probably about the time when their building was decommissioned in 2019.

Examples

– http://www.neurobiologie.fu-berlin.de/Umweltspäher/Projektbeschreibung_Ziele.html
– http://www.honeybee.neurobiologie.fu-berlin.de/

#6

Loss of https://www.beesource.com/ (partly)

Unfortunately, this great site published by a group of enthusiasts was overhauled somewhere around August 2020 and some pieces got lost on this way.

The page About Us | Beesource Beekeeping Forums says:

So, while the content of the discussion forum was saved, all of the original non-forum content apparently didn’t make it through the transition.

Examples