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Two Million Free Texts Now Available
The Internet Archive is pleased to announce an important manuscript, Homiliary on Gospels from Easter to first Sunday of Advent, as the 2,000,000th free digital text. Internet Archive has been scanning books and making them available for researchers, historians, scholars, … Continue reading
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Awards for the Internet Archive
The Internet Archive received 2 awards recently that we are proud of. One is for social benefit from the Free Software Foundation. Coming from those that helped restructure the software domain in the era of burdensome copyrights and patents, we … Continue reading
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Open Library Redesign soft launch on special url
Open Library, a project of the Internet Archive, is a site with a web page for every book. It strives to become a wikipedia of books. 23M books, over 1 million free ebooks, wiki editable, completely great. A new version … Continue reading
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70,000 books from Cornell Libraries online now
Today Cornell and the Internet Archive announce that over 70,000 public-domain books are available free online (many still to come). These are beautiful books that are now available with no restrictions. Thank you Cornell, Kirtas, and Microsoft. The Internet Archive … Continue reading
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100 new jobs for scanning in San Francisco
SF Mayor Gavin Newsom on the Internet Archive’s hiring 100 people to scan books and microfilm from the unemployment rolls leveraging a matching system using stimulus dollars. Start at 2min 15 seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaB6AURj2UM We are gearing up under a similar … Continue reading
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60,000 books from Library of Congress go online
Library of Congress wrote an article about their project to mass digitize brittle books. Almost 60,000 are available now and more are scanned every day. These books are in the public domain and come with no restrictions on their use. … Continue reading
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A Future for Books: BookServer launch event
The Internet Archive launched BookServer to a group of 500 in San Francisco. The BookServer is a new distributed lending and vending system for books on the Internet. We will demonstrate a live system where: Publishers and booksellers are selling … Continue reading
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Project funded to add features to a Million books
The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at UMass Amherst, the Perseus Digital Library Project at Tufts, and the Internet Archive are investigating large-scale information extraction and retrieval technologies for digitized book collections. The NSF has awarded a grant of $2.7 … Continue reading
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Book Reader supports Zooming
Internet Archive’s web-based book reader now supports zooming and panning around books with their pages open. This is helpful for foldout maps. The books can be embedded into any webpage, and the software is all opensource so others can integrate … Continue reading
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Wayback Machine comes to life in new home
The Wayback Machine is a 150 billion page web archive with a front end to serve it through the archive.org website. Today the new machine came to life, so if you using the service, you are using a 20′ by … Continue reading
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New Archive Datacenter with Sun
Today the Internet Archive and Sun Microsystems are launching a new datacenter that stores the whole web archive and serves the Wayback Machine. And, it is a modular datacenter that sits outside in a shipping container. This 3Petabyte (3 million … Continue reading
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Yiddish literature goes online
Over ten thousand Yiddish texts, estimated as over 1/2 of all the published works in Yiddish, are now online based on the work of the National Yiddish Book Center, volunteers, and the Internet Archive. We are excited that a literature … Continue reading
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End of Year Message from the Internet Archive
December 2008 Dear Friends of the Archive, I hope this letter finds you in good health and spirits. The Internet Archive is strong and healthy. We have had a fun, busy year almost doubling our library of audio, video, and … Continue reading
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NASA Images project launched
Internet Archive is working with NASA to make the still images and moving images from the history of the space program available online. Very cool. http://www.nasaimages.org Christian Science Monitor mention. Here is the press release from NASA: David E. Steitz … Continue reading
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Milestone: 50,000 free live music concert
We have hit a major milestone: 50,000 individual shows by 2924 bands are now freely downloadable and streamable from http://www.archive.org/details/etree What a success for the commons! (from Tyler’s post: http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=195573 ) Project starts in aug/sept 2002 … 10,000 shows March … Continue reading
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Books Scanning to be Publicly Funded
The Internet Archive operates 13 scanning centers in great libraries, digitizing 1000 books a day. This scanning is financially supported by libraries, foundations, and the Microsoft Corporation. Today, Microsoft has announced that it will ramp down their investment in this … Continue reading
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FBI Gag order against the Internet Archive is rescinded
The Internet Archive was served a National Security Letter by the FBI demanding information about a patron of the Archive. The Archive fought it with the help of the EFF and ACLU. We won. We can now talk about it, … Continue reading
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Free Ultra High-Speed Internet to Public Housing
For Immediate Release March 27, 2008 Internet Archive Brings Free Ultra High-Speed Internet to Public Housing San Francisco : The Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based organization dedicated to preserving a record of the Internet and to increasing access to the … Continue reading
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Rise of the HighTech Non-Profits
We have been excited to be part of the new high-tech non-profit sector that is building the infrastructure for the digital age. Mozilla, Wikipedia, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Public Library of Science, One Laptop per Child, Internet Systems Consortium, … Continue reading
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Zotero and Internet Archive join forces
Zotero, scholar’s toolset including a browser plug-in, and the Internet Archive have joined forces. Thank you to the Mellon Foundation. http://www.dancohen.org/2007/12/12/zotero-and-the-internet-archive-join-forces
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