Save by OpenArchive

Save by OpenArchive enables you to safely preserve, organize, and share your mobile media.

Designed with and for individuals and organizations working to securely archive media directly from their mobile devices to a server, Save keeps you in control of your media at all times.

Features

•⁠ ⁠Upload any type of media to a private server or directly to the Internet Archive

•⁠ ⁠Edit media metadata, including location and additional notes

•⁠ ⁠Flag media as “significant” for organization and/or easy retrieval later

•⁠ ⁠Batch edit media — update the metadata of multiple media files at once

•⁠ ⁠Create multiple project albums to keep your media organized (e.g. “Summer 2019,” “Workshop photos,” “Kitchen remodel,” etc)

•⁠ ⁠Share to Save from other apps on your phone, such as your Photos or voice memos apps

•⁠ ⁠“Wi-Fi-only” upload setting, for when cellular data networks are unreliable or expensive

•⁠ ⁠Creative Commons licensing options for the media you collect and share

•⁠ ⁠Uninterrupted uploads using a foreground service

Benefits

Preserve

Upload your important mobile media to a private server of your choice (using a free and open source platform like Nextcloud or ownCloud).

Publish the media publicly to the Internet Archive for resilient, robust preservation by a third-party.

Organize

Create custom-named Projects to keep your media sorted in ways that make sense to you.

Add helpful notes, location, and other contextual information one by one or in bulk.

Enable findability and organization with folders in the app that correspond to your own private server.

Share

Connect to existing project albums created and managed by partners and colleagues.

Send media to the Save app from your camera roll and other applications.

Secure

Save always uses TLS encryption, which encrypts the connection between your mobile device and your chosen destination, whether a private server or the Internet Archive.

Save works with server software like Nextcloud that makes it easy to encrypt the data you’ve collected.

Help & Support

OpenArchive’s FAQ - https://open-archive.org/faq/

Contact us at info[at]open-archive[dot]org

About

OpenArchive is a team of technologists, ethnographers, and archivists committed to helping people easily preserve and organize their mobile media. We create intuitive, privacy-first decentralized archiving tools and educational resources to preserve history.

About Save

Save is an intuitive, privacy-first decentralized mobile archiving app that helps people preserve their mobile media for the long term. It offers users greater control over their media by providing tools for authentication, verification, privacy, licensing, and flexible storage options for long-term access and reuse.

Save addresses the gaps in the current online ecosystem existing around the a) ethical short-term collection and b) long term preservation of sensitive mobile media. We provide mobile-centered, scalable, industry-standard, ethical, intuitive, easy to use tools for at-risk communities to pseudonymously preserve and authenticate their media so that it will be accessible and maintain its provenance in the future.

Links

Terms of Service: https://open-archive.org/privacy/#terms-of-service

Privacy Policy: https://open-archive.org/privacy/#privacy-policy