Lazarus Archive · LZ-28331

NovaSnap

Nova Media, 2006–2015. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 6 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2015.

Provenance

Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. Some embedded media from third-party sites had already gone when the capture was made. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
f7eb5a0bf8bd6695bced7d24e5551de4d6c61fbaebafa31d08f2699be80ac739
Last verified
Sep 11, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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

Cite as: Nova Media, NovaSnap (2006–2015). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28331.

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