 Busily spending part of my weekend enjoying one aspect of my job at the Archive - sorting through uploads of a certain type - in this case, anything calling itself a "Manual". There are hundreds of people uploading a single manual for the most obscure of things, and the style and breadth is amazing. Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center:
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@internetarchive does the wayback machine preserve a snapshot of google reviews? I find that a lot of times businesses remove bad reviews. It would be very helpful to be able to go back in time to see these bad reviews that were removed.  @internetarchive Does The Wayback Machine accept html files? In other words: do they have room for websites and webpages? @internetarchive The large language model industy loves the internet achive data sets? What about copyright and data ownership? Stack overflow questions are okay to be achieved since the answers are in the public domain.[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow But if a site is bloated trash and the content is locked, please let it die.  TONIGHT (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance: 2/ You were promised a jetpack by liars: AIs and self-driving cars are the new jetpacks. https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112456967534700484 3/ TONIGHT (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance: eof/ It has become increasingly common for publishers to limit access to #eBooks by imposing highly restrictive licensing conditions, demanding excessive prices, or simply denying licenses. This needs to stop. Join us in two weeks for our salon! Register here: https://communia-association.org/2024/05/06/communia-salon-the-right-to-e-lend/ 📣 If you’re in the Bay Area this afternoon, come celebrate the 10th anniversary of Authors Alliance, featuring a keynote from Cory Doctorow! Tickets are still available 🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics-tickets-862493018837 🌐 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 Internet Archive Canada, Vancouver HQ, is a great place to have events, and it now does on the regular. "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/  Album cover. 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 👉 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/ 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. 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,  @internetarchive 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 @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. 🕰️ 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 @internetarchive Dear Internet Archive people: 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 Digitizing Aruba's History, Culture & Heritage. go aruba go @internetarchive (6 minutes youtube) 🗣️ 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 @internetarchive @textfiles Whisper is pretty amazing. It's integrated into the open source video editor "Kdenlive" and works great. @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. 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  @brewsterkahle and they forced a huge increase in the prices of ebooks, to match paper books. @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. The all-hands monday meeting at Internet Archive featured Wylie Gustafson, who you may have heard as the Yahoo! yodel. |
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@textfiles Whoa, that Amstrad printer is a blast from the past!
IA is the first place I'd go for a manual now, no contest.
@textfiles How do people contribute those?