Author Archives: Brewster Kahle

Software Help Requested to Segment Tracks on LP’s

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Brewster Kahle

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

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Brewster Kahle

[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

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Brewster Kahle

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

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Brewster Kahle

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

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Brewster Kahle

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

Posted on December 15, 2017 by Brewster Kahle

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

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Brewster Kahle

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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Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated!

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Brewster Kahle

[press: boingboing] The Internet Archive is now leveraging a little known, and perhaps never used, provision of US copyright law, Section 108h, which allows libraries to scan and make available materials published 1923 to 1941 if they are not being … Continue reading →

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Why Bitcoin is on the Internet Archive’s Balance Sheet

Posted on September 2, 2017 by Brewster Kahle

  A foundation was curious as to why we have Bitcoin on our balance sheet, and I thought I would explain it publicly. The Internet Archive explores how bitcoin and other Internet innovations can be useful in the non-profit sphere– … Continue reading →

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Dreaming of Semantic Audio Restoration at a Massive Scale

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Brewster Kahle

I believe we can do a fabulous job of bringing the music from the 78rpm era back to vibrant life if we really understand wear and if we could model the instruments and voices. In other words, I believe we … Continue reading →

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