Category Archives: Announcements

Internet Archive awarded grant from Arcadia Fund to digitize university press collections

Posted on May 21, 2018 by chrisfreeland

Internet Archive has received a $1 million dollar grant from Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – to digitize titles from university press collections to make them available via controlled digital lending.  The project, Unlocking … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive Benefit Concert feat. Moonalice – June 30, 2018

Posted on May 21, 2018 by jeff kaplan

Do you live in the Bay Area and love to groove for a good cause? On Saturday, June 30th the Internet Archive’s very own Jeff Kaplan and his Jefferson Airplane cover band ‘SF Airship Acoustic’ will be playing all the … Continue reading →

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TV News Record: Six takeaways from adding Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama & more to Face-o-Matic facial detection

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Nancy Watzman

A round up on what’s happening at the TV News Archive by Katie Dahl and Nancy Watzman. This week we release new data generated by our Face-o-Matic tool, developed in collaboration with Matroid, adding to our list of public figures … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive and New York Art Resources Consortium Receive Grant for a National Forum to Advance Web Archiving in Art and Museum Libraries

Posted on May 15, 2018 by jefferson

We are pleased to announce that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has recently awarded a collaborative grant to the New York Art Resources Consortium and our Archive-It group to host a national forum event, along with associated … Continue reading →

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The Future of Civil Discourse – Four Scenarios Imagined

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Katie Barrett

by Katie Barrett and Lawrence Wilkinson Looking 10 years ahead, try and imagine a world without trust, but rife with monopolies. Walled gardens of tech giants solidify. The DOW and Nasdaq are up, civic engagement is low, surveillance is ubiquitous. … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive Meets Pineapple Fund’s $1M Challenge

Posted on May 1, 2018 by David Fox

As the days wound down and our April 30 deadline drew near, supporters of the Internet Archive rallied to help us raise $1 million—the amount the Pineapple Fund pledged to match. Today, we are happy to announce: We Made It!  … Continue reading →

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SAVE THE DATE: Decentralized Web Summit 2018

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Wendy Hanamura

In 2016, an early group of builders, policymakers, journalists and archivists gathered at the Internet Archive for the first Decentralized Web Summit to “Lock the Web Open” for good. A lot has happened since then! Today more than ever before, we understand … Continue reading →

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Google Summer of Code 2018: Thank you Google and welcome students!

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Mark Graham

The Internet Archive is grateful to Google for running their “Google Summer of Code” (GSoC) program, providing support for students and open source projects. This year the GSoC will support 5 students to work with the Internet Archive on the … Continue reading →

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TV News Record: Recognizing Trump’s voice on TV, NYT & Axios coverage, + Ryan fact-check

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Nancy Watzman

A round up on what’s happening at the TV News Archive by Katie Dahl and Nancy Watzman. This week we explore cutting edge work by Joostware that moves us closer to solving the challenge of searching vast archives of video … Continue reading →

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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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