mek, Author at Internet Archive Blogs

2020 has been a year of difficulties for all of us. Many schools, libraries, and families have had to adapt to unexpected closures and new norms.

At the Internet Archive, volunteers from the OpenLibrary.org community have been stepping up to meet the challenges of this new normal, to ensure that educators, parents, students, and researchers may continue to safely access the educational materials they rely on.

This Tuesday, October 27, at 11:30 am PDT, we invite you to tune-in and join us as we celebrate this year’s efforts, overcoming unprecedented challenges and growing as an open community.

RSVP: https://forms.gle/dNzLDPtZHsrhudUc7

During this online event, you’ll hear from members of the community as we:
* Announce our latest developments and their impacts
* Raise awareness about opportunities to participate
* Show a sneak-peek into our future: 2021

For more updates, consider following us on twitter: @openlibrary

Join us this Saturday, September 23 @ 10:30am PT for our Experiments Day Hackathon

It’s almost that time again — October 11 — the day the Internet Archive invites you to celebrate another year of preserving our cultural heritage and the progress our community has made towards building tools that facilitate universal access to all knowledge.

Making these collections as discoverable and accessible as possible is a huge task, and we need your help! It’s often our community members who bring our items to life.

Now’s your chance!

Champions of open-access, unite: This Saturday, September 23 @ 10:30am PT, join us in person at the Internet Archive HQ or joins us remotely online for an Experiments Day Hackathon; a day of camaraderie and civic action fuelled by fresh ground coffee and abundant amounts of pizza.

Let’s team up to prototype experimental interfaces, remix content, and build tools to make knowledge more accessible to those who need it most.

What experiments would you craft with 2M hours or tv news, 5B archived images, 3M books, and petabytes of free storage? Proposed themes include #decentralization, #accessibility, #books, #scholarly-papers, #annotations.

We’ve helped backup over 2M hours of television news, hundreds of billions of webpages through time, audio for tens of thousands of live music concerts and 78rpms, and have helped digitize and lend millions of public domain and modern books. The breadth, archival quality, and uniqueness of our collections make the Internet Archive a rich terrain for experimentation and hacking. Many of our top engineers will be on hand to guide you through the APIs to build with.

Then, be sure to come back on October 11 for our annual celebration, where many of our experiments will be on display!

Register/RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-archive-experiments-hackathon-2017-tickets-37012125263

Join our chat: https://gitter.im/ArchiveExperiments/Lobby

Schedule + more event details: https://experiments.archivelab.org/hackathon

Watch remotely: https://archive.org/details/archive-experiments-hackathon-2017