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🌐 Ever wonder what happens to .gov websites before & after presidential elections? We archive them! Help our team preserve US government info by nominating sites today 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/end-of-term-web-archive/ #EOTArchive
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Internet Archive Canada, Vancouver HQ, is a great place to have events, and it now does on the regular.
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"CARRYING QUEENS IN TUBULAR CAGES. on the tips of my fingers" A random image from the @internetarchive account on Flickr that caught my eye today. https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/20390023456/
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Album cover.
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The story of how conglomeration has reshaped the publishing industry & the books we read is a fascinating & cautionary tale that continues to be written to this day. Learn more from yesterday's #booktalk with BIG FICTION author, Dan Sinykin 👉
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The current legal framework doesn’t enable libraries to play their crucial role in ensuring access to knowledge & culture in the digital environment. Join us on wed 29/05 from 15-16h for our salon on e-lending to learn what needs to be done! Register here https://communia-association.org/2024/05/06/communia-salon-the-right-to-e-lend/
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We will be joined by Stephen Wyber (Director External Affairs at IFLA) who will give an overview of the state of e-lending in Europe. Konrad Gliściński (Jagiellonian University/Centrum Cyfrowe), the principal investigator of a forthcoming study, commissioned by KR21 will present his findings on secure digital lending as well as suggestions for a legal intervention. The event will be moderated by COMMUNIA Legal Director Teresa Nobre, who will also present our new policy paper on this issue.
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When the Harkness Eye Institute moved after 90+ years, the fate of the library within was in question. Some materials could move, but not the large runs of bound,
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InterLibrary loan lives! Record numbers are getting articles and chapters through this reliable free method from the Internet Archive. The long tail holdings are needed! 384 libraries are now getting docs through one system. Go @internetarchive go #ILL
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@brewsterkahle @internetarchive ILL is awesome. I have gotten access to 4 books already this year, with at least that many requests waiting for some kind library to fulfill.
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🕰️ From forgotten blog posts to vanished news articles, the Wayback Machine is a crucial tool for exploring our shared online history. Begin your search today ➡️ https://web.archive.org/ #preservation
Claudio Segovia
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Dear Internet Archive people:
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Thanks to @internetarchive for the pointer to @bourgwick 's excavation of Psyche Pscene, a late 60's early 70's independent zine published here in Chicago
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Digitizing Aruba's History, Culture & Heritage. go aruba go @internetarchive (6 minutes youtube)
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🗣️ Free range archivist Jason Scott (@textfiles) takes Whisper, the open source speech recognition project, out for a spin on 5+ years worth of his weekly podcasts, preserved on archive.org ▶️ https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/28/taking-the-words-out-of-my-mouth-with-ai/ x
Chris A.
@internetarchive @textfiles Whisper is pretty amazing. It's integrated into the open source video editor "Kdenlive" and works great.
Steven Sandoval
@internetarchive @textfiles I can confirm that Whisper is useful for generating transcripts of podcasts that are 80% “good enough” for local text searching with non-LLM #FLOSS tools such as Recoll https://www.recoll.org/ https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/recoll #search LLM audio transcription is like a bulldozer tunneling a straight line into an otherwise inaccessible jungle; sure, stuff gets mangled, but it gives you quick access to biomes too costly to survey on foot.
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The California Historical Radio Society contributed hundreds of video and audiotapes documenting various DXpeditions, going back as far as the 1960s (though most from the '80s and '90s.) 80 of these presentations have been digitized so far — check them out at https://archive.org/details/dx-peditions
Bill Seitz
@brewsterkahle and they forced a huge increase in the prices of ebooks, to match paper books.
Keith Mann
@brewsterkahle Owning and controlling information is the same kind of imperative for publishers that preserving and disseminating it is for the IA. It, not books, is their asset. Yet it's so hard to value individually that they simply hoard it until some nugget shows potential, and they will milk it dry and speculate and diversify to improve their odds. It is as much quantity as quality, and the more, the better. Past sales be damned; there's always a chance for more as long as you own it.
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The all-hands monday meeting at Internet Archive featured Wylie Gustafson, who you may have heard as the Yahoo! yodel.
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Move over Mickey...Let's give a round of applause to Tigger, who also moved into the public domain this year, thanks to his debut in 1928's "The House at Pooh Corner" 📚🐯 Read, remix, and share for free! https://archive.org/details/the-house-at-pooh-corner
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@internetarchive Part oof the Garrick Club's major income was from the estate of A A Milne. I guess that will be coming to an end soon. As will the male-only rule: reduxing the threshold of votes means that women are certain to be admitted in the next few weeks.
Gary :clubtwit:
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Internet Archive Files Final Brief in Publishers Lawsuit “Resolving this should be easy—just sell ebooks to libraries so we can own, preserve and lend them to one person at a time. This is a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.” Brewster Kahle https://mailchi.mp/519141338ca1/empowering-libraries-12084078
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Today, we filed our final brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers’ lawsuit against our library. For four years we've been fighting for library rights—what our founder, @brewsterkahle, calls “a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.” https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/19/internet-archive-stands-firm-on-library-digital-rights-in-final-brief-of-hachette-v-internet-archive-lawsuit/
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@internetarchive @brewsterkahle I also hope you win, all the more because Hachette was recently purchased by an awful fascist media magnate who's pushing his far right agenda in French politics through all his radio and tv channels, papers and now publishing company (Hachette is the main oublisher for school books in France if you see what I mean)
Brett Coulstock
@internetarchive @brewsterkahle The Internet Archive is a treasure. I was searching for a quote from script-writer Russel T Davies from an interview published on the BBC Writers Room. The page and interview no longer exist on that site, but the Internet Archive has it, and the quote I was looking for. I'd rather have IA than AI. 😎
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If you missed yesterday's book talk with authors Aram Sinnreich (@aram) & Jesse Gilbert (@jesse) about their new book, THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA, facilitated by tech scholar Laura DeNardis, the session recording is now available: https://archive.org/details/the-secret-life-of-data?start=28
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Internet Archive's founder & digital librarian, @brewsterkahle, reflects on last week's move by the island nation of Aruba to endorse digital rights for memory institutions. Why is it so important for libraries to own, not lease, their collections? 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/18/arubas-bold-support-of-library-digital-rights-by-brewster-kahle/
Jigme Datse
@internetarchive @brewsterkahle I have to agree... Can we have people having regular free access to information? Like free as in freedom, and free as in without cost both? That seems like a good way to go. I *hate* that so much is ebooks, and that with ebooks, there can be only so many loaned out at a time. It seems like there's got to be a way to handle that so someone doesn't have to wait 6 weeks (maybe more) to get an ebook. May end up ordering through inter library loan.
Timothy Green
@internetarchive @brewsterkahle I don't mind streaming or renting works. What I *do* mind is never owning a work. It's almost like they treat these digital goods as ancient art - "You may look, but don't touch!"
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Our screening party for the "accidentally public domain" film, CHARADE, was great fun last Friday night! If you weren't able to make it, you can host your own screening party with the film, preserved & accessible in our collection. 📽️ https://archive.org/details/Charade19631280x696 |