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Announcing “Future Knowledge”: A New Podcast from the Internet Archive & Authors Alliance ( blog.archive.org )

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Future Knowledge, a new podcast from the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance. Hosted by Chris Freeland, librarian at the Internet Archive, and Dave Hansen, executive director of Authors Alliance, the series brings together authors, librarians, policymakers, technologists, and artists ...

Announcing “Future Knowledge”: A New Podcast from the Internet Archive & Authors Alliance ( blog.archive.org )

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Future Knowledge, a new podcast from the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance. Hosted by Chris Freeland, librarian at the Internet Archive, and Dave Hansen, executive director of Authors Alliance, the series brings together authors, librarians, policymakers, technologists, and artists ...

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Live activity occurs Monday–Friday, 7:30am-3:30pm U.S. Pacific Time (GMT+8)—except U.S. holidays—with a second shift coming soon.

Damn. I guess they are in it for the long haul.

New Digital Collection Preserves Key Books on Drug Use and Policy

“It became clear if we really wanted people to benefit from our resources that digitization was the way to go,” said Netherland, managing director of the Alliance’s Department of Research and Academic Engagement. It was also an opportunity to add to the growing collection of the Substance Abuse Librarians and Information ...

Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive | Internet Archive Blogs ( blog.archive.org )

A coalition of major record labels has filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive—demanding $700 million for our work preserving and providing access to historical 78rpm records. These fragile, obsolete discs hold some of the earliest recordings of a vanishing American culture. But this lawsuit goes far beyond old records. ...

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ArchiveTeam are "planning" to save everything(?), but they should have started like two months ago, if they have any hope of doing that. Dunno if it's being worked on at all. Plus committing to a multiple petabyte project I assume takes some doing.

I've scarcely visited the site myself, but I looked around for stuff of interest to me and bagged them. yt-dlp works just fine!

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It's odd that while there is one part that's film negative on purpose, some just seem to be negative for no reason...

Vanishing Culture: Cultural Preservation and Queer History ( blog.archive.org )

It’s a creative act to find and make sense of my own history, one that requires a leap of faith in order to fill in the silences, erasures, omissions, and genuine mysteries that old books and documents, records and artifacts, represent. A lot is left to the imagination. Much of what survives from the past asks more questions ...

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Wasn't sure where to cross-post it on .ca! Québec, duh! Thanks.

Old "mundane" footage like this is always interesting, I would say!

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There does seem to be some tracker rate limiting, but there certainly is a lot of work to be done.

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After a while, blog posts started returning a 403 error, then later 410. Images and javascript files remained downloadable for longer, but the JS files started returning 410 after a while as well. Now, only images are available, and the known ones are slowly being archived as long as they are downloadable.

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It's very convenient to have these archives always a click of a button away. Definitely recommend!

DWeb and Digital Rights: A Report Back from RightsCon in Taipei ( blog.archive.org )

In late February, members of the DWeb Core Team and the DWeb community were in Taipei to attend the 13th edition of RightsCon, the largest global summit on human rights in the digital age. Namely, we were there to connect with the digital rights community. We wanted to participate in an event where thousands of people travel ...

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For a second I thought it might be another wave of DOS.

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They are back now, but I could find no further info about it.