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Author Archives: Brewster Kahle
Helping us judge a book by its cover: software help request
The Internet Archive would appreciate some help from a volunteer programmer to create software that would help determine if a book cover is useful to our users as a thumbnail or if we should use the title page instead. For … Continue reading
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Low Vision? Disability? 1.8 Million digital books free, now Worldwide
You can take action now to expand access to 1.8million books worldwide. Individuals can qualify now to access 1.8 million digitized books, free. Internet Archive has recently expanded its program for those with low vision and disabilities. Libraries, hospitals, … Continue reading
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Physical Archive Party October 28th, 2018
Archive friends and family please join us for the Physical Archive party, 2-6pm 2512 Florida Avenue, Richmond CA. RSVP please so we can keep a count. Staff, partners, friends of the Internet Archive are all invited. RSVP HERE This is … Continue reading
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Software Help Requested to Segment Tracks on LP’s
Machine Learning + Music Lovers: the Internet Archive is seeking technical volunteers or interns or low-cost contractors with a passion for music to make an opensource software library capable of identifying which songs are on LPs (given a wave form … Continue reading
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Digital opportunity for the academic scholarly record
[MIT Libraries is holding a workshop on Grand Challenges for the scholarly record. They asked participants for a problem/solution statement. This is mine. -brewster kahle] The problem of academic scholarly record now: University library budgets are spent on closed rather … Continue reading
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Mass downloading 78rpm record transfers
To preserve or discover interesting 78rpm records you can download them to your own machine (rather than using our collection pages). You can download lots on to a mac/linux machine by using a command line utility. Preparation: Download the IA … Continue reading
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Digital Books on archive.org
Many people think of the Internet Archive as just the Wayback Machine or just one collection or another, but there is much more. For instance, books! As a nonprofit library we buy and lend books to the public, but we … Continue reading
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Building Digital 78rpm Record Collections Together with Minimal Duplication
By working together, libraries who are digitizing their collections can minimize duplication of effort in order to save time and money to preserve other things. This month we made progress with 78rpm record collections. The goal is to bring many … Continue reading
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Dreaming Open, Dreaming Big
Disheartened by anti-NetNeutrality moves in the US, but inspired by the reddit poster offering to donate $87million in bitcoin (5057BTC) to good causes (including the awesome EFF)? It got us dreaming open and dreaming big: What could we do if … Continue reading
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5,000 78rpm sides for the Great 78 Project are now posted
This month’s transfers of 5,000 78rpm sides for the Great 78 Project are now posted. Many are Latin American music from the David Chomowicz and Esther Ready Collection. Others are square dance music, with and without the calls, from the Larry Edelman … Continue reading
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