Category Archives: News

Highlights from the Tribute to Cyberspace Philosopher, John Perry Barlow

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Caitlin Olson

by Lisa Rein On April 7, 2018, more than 500 people gathered at the Internet Archive for a symposium on the life and work of John Perry Barlow. The program included talks, discussions and Q & A sessions with many … 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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TV News Record: Caption analyses, plus fact-checks on wall & immigrants

Posted on April 6, 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 bring you analyses of cable TV news coverage and fact-checks of recent statements by President Donald Trump on immigration and … Continue reading →

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Meet the Team Building Open Libraries

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Wendy Hanamura

Open Libraries is a multi-year project to build the online equivalent of a great, modern public library, lending millions of digital books to billions of people who currently have little access. Working with US libraries and organizations serving people with … Continue reading →

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The Music Modernization Act is Bad for the Preservation of Sound Recordings

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Lila Bailey

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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TV News Record: How cable TV news reports news, fact-checks on banking, trade, and public lands

Posted on March 22, 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 present a Washington Post analysis of coverage of an alleged affair by the president; a Vox piece examining coverage of Andrew McCabe, … Continue reading →

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Digital opportunity for the academic scholarly record

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Brewster Kahle

[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

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Jason Scott

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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