Lazarus Archive · LZ-13750

ArdentSnap

Ardent Media, 2006–2011. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 61 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2011.

Provenance

Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. About 59 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
397652bcee25e018652f049315f18f064680c760b803c1408c1b33a19294083e
Last verified
Oct 19, 2026, by Vigil
Migrated to
WARC, replayed in the reading room
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
None. Captured over the network.

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.

Reading-room copies are migrated to WARC, replayed in the reading room. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.

Cite as: Ardent Media, ArdentSnap (2006–2011). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13750.

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