Category Archives: Announcements

Internet Archive TV News Lab: Introducing Face-O-Matic, experimental Slack alert system tracking Trump & congressional leaders on TV news

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

Working with Matroid, a California-based start up specializing in identifying people and objects in images and video, the Internet Archive’s TV News Archive today releases Face-O-Matic, an experimental public service that alerts users via a Slack app whenever the faces … Continue reading →

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Film Screening: Lost Landscapes of LA on August 7

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Caitlin Olson

By Rick Prelinger Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles (2016, 83 minutes) is an experimental documentary tracing the changing city of Los Angeles (1920s-1960s), showing how its landscape expresses an almost infinite collection of mythologies. Made from home movies and studio-produced … Continue reading →

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How to play and play with thousands of digitized 78rpm records

Posted on July 10, 2017 by jeff kaplan

There are over 50k uploaded recordings from 78’s from users, and there are now 10’s of thousands of high-bitrate unrestored transfers of 78’s that are part of the Great 78 Project. With this many, it gets hard to find things … Continue reading →

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TV News Record: Focus on North Korea

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

By Katie Dahl and Nancy Watzman Following the U.S. government’s confirmation that North Korea had successfully fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, we focus on statements by public officials and pundits on the nuclear threat from the Korean Peninsula, including some … Continue reading →

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78rpm Records from KUSF: Getting Ready for Digitization

Posted on July 6, 2017 by bgeorge

by B. George, Music Curator and Director of the ARChive of Contemporary Music It’s the 4th of July and we’re celebrating in Richmond, California where we just finished repacking and sorting the legendary KUSF archive – 22 pallets full, maybe 60,000 … Continue reading →

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K-12 Web Archivists Capture History in the Making

Posted on July 5, 2017 by jefferson

by Sylvie Rollason-Cass, Web Archivist, Archive-It This year marked the 9th season of the K-12 web archiving program. Students from 11 schools around the country worked together to think critically about information on the web and to select websites to … Continue reading →

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TV News Record: Fox on CNN, getting Gorsuch right + fact-checks

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

We changed our name! Our weekly updates from the TV News Archive are now titled TV News Record, to reflect our goal of providing many ways for viewers to put the news in context, whether through fact checks from our … Continue reading →

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Join us for Ted Nelson’s birthday: OCTOTHORP — 80 AND STILL S#ARP

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Caitlin Olson

You’re invited to a birthday celebration for Ted Nelson on July 11th at 6 p.m. at Internet Archive headquarters, featuring Lauren Sarno. TED NELSON Internet Archive Fellow author of the highly-influential book “Computer Lib” first to imagine world-wide hypertext coiner … Continue reading →

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Film Screening: Normal Is Over on July 17 at 7 p.m.

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Caitlin Olson

…”An unusual, visually rich portrait of some of the world’s brightest and most innovative ideas.”- Daily Maverick S.A. You’re invited to a screening of Normal Is Over The Movie, an award-winning documentary that looks for SOLUTIONS to climate change, species … Continue reading →

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Knight Prototype Fund winners use TV News Archive to fight misinformation

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

We are delighted to report that two of  20 winners recently announced Knight Prototype Fund’s $1 million challenge to combat misinformation will directly draw on the TV News Archive. One of these is the Bad Idea Factory’s “Glorious ContextuBot.” Let’s say you come across a … Continue reading →

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