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The Music Modernization Act is Bad for the Preservation of Sound Recordings
There’s a bill working its way through Congress called the Music Modernization Act (the current bill is a mix of several bills, the portion we are concerned with was formerly called the CLASSICS Act) that has us very concerned about … Continue reading
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Digital opportunity for the academic scholarly record
[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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Some Very Entertaining Plastic, Emulated at the Archive
It’s been a little over 4 years since the Internet Archive started providing emulation in the browser from our software collection; millions of plays of games, utilities, and everything else that shows up on a screen have happened since then. … Continue reading
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10 Ways To Explore The Internet Archive For Free
The Internet Archive is a treasure trove of fascinating media, texts, and ephemera. Items that if they didn’t exist here, would be lost forever. Yet so many of our community members have difficulty describing what exactly it is…that we do … Continue reading
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Grant to the Internet Archive for Long Tail Journal Preservation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a research and development grant to the Internet Archive to address the critical need to preserve the “long tail” of open access scholarly communications. The project, Ensuring the Persistent Access of Long Tail … Continue reading
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Tagged data mining, open data, web archiving
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27 Public Libraries and the Internet Archive Launch “Community Webs” for Local History Web Archiving
The lives and activities of communities are increasingly documented online; local news, events, disasters, celebrations — the experiences of citizens are now largely shared via social media and web platforms. As these primary sources about community life move to the … Continue reading
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Tagged web archiving
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TV News Record: Television Explorer 2.0, shooting coverage & more
A round up on what’s happening at the TV News Archive by Katie Dahl and Nancy Watzman. Explore Television Explorer 2.0 Television Explorer, a tool to search closed captions from the TV News Archive, keeps getting better. Last week GDELT’s … Continue reading
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Tagged CNN, cryptocurrency, Fox News, GDELT, Kalev Leetaru, MSNBC, shootings, Television Explorer, The Washington Post, Vox
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Expanding the Television Archive
When we started archiving television in 2000, people shrugged and asked, “Why? Isn’t it all junk anyway?” As the saying goes, one person’s junk is another person’s gold. From 2010-18, scholars, pundits and above all, reporters, have spun journalistic gold … Continue reading
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Tagged elections, Face-O-Matic, fact check, FiveThirtyEight, Fox News, Knight Foundation, political ads, television archive, The New York Times, TV news archive, UCLA, Vanderbilt University
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TV News Record: New search, important data, & more fact-checks
A round up on what’s happening at the TV News Archive by Katie Dahl and Nancy Watzman. Additional research by Robin Chin. This week we present new TV news search features, inventory data of TV news recordings from GDELT, and … Continue reading
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