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Recovers a complete site from a Wayback Machine snapshot – HTML, CSS, JS, images, fonts – rewriting URLs and stripping Wayback artifacts so the result behaves like the original.

Google’s official data export service, producing massive archives covering Gmail, Google Photos, Drive, YouTube history, Calendar, Contacts, Location History, and dozens more services. A single Takeout dump is the largest personal data ingestion event most people will ever perform — and a critical starting point for anyone building a personal digital archive.

A self-hosted, AI-powered photo management application with face recognition, automatic categorization, map views, and album management. In the con/serve architecture, PhotoPrism serves as a rich visualization frontend over git-annex-tracked photo archives, applying the data-visualization separation principle: photos live in git-annex, PhotoPrism provides the browsable UI.

A simple, self-hosted photo gallery designed for photographers who want a clean browsing experience over existing folder structures. Already deployed as a service in Lab-in-a-Box. Lighter than PhotoPrism, it reads photos directly from the filesystem without requiring import or database migration.

A self-hosted internet archiving tool that takes URLs and saves them in multiple formats – HTML, PDF, screenshot, WARC, media files – for long-term preservation.

A cloud-native, headless browser-based web crawler that creates high-fidelity WARC archives, capturing JavaScript-rendered content that traditional crawlers miss.

A single-file Python file server supporting HTTP, WebDAV, SFTP, FTP, and TFTP with resumable uploads, content-based deduplication, media indexing, and a full-featured web interface. Useful as an ingestion front-end and quick file sharing tool within research infrastructure.

Self-hosted collaborative markdown editor for meeting notes, lab notebooks, and documentation. Documents are exported and committed to git for long-term preservation.

A mature, well-established website mirroring tool that creates offline-browsable copies of entire websites, preserving directory structure and link integrity.

Built-in Mattermost export tooling using mmctl to produce JSONL archives of teams, channels, users, and posts, suitable for long-term preservation in git-annex.

A browser extension (and CLI tool) that saves a complete web page – including CSS, images, fonts, and iframes – into a single, self-contained HTML file.

Docker-based Telegram archival tool with incremental backups, media preservation, real-time message capture, and a built-in web viewer.

Integration with the Zotero reference manager for synchronizing curated reference collections with DataLad datasets. Export BibTeX, JSON, and structured metadata for git-tracked bibliography management.