Inspiring musings by @brewsterkahle on the @internetarchive blog.
"Our evolving digital age can be our next #Carnegie moment or it can be a #Library of Alexandria moment. It is up to us."
Vanishing Culture: Preserving the Library System https://blog.archive.org/2025/04/07/vanishing-culture-preserving-the-library-system/ #DigitalLibraries #internetarchive #preservation #equity #OpenAccess #education
The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It - As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technology/trump-history-websites.html #instituteofmuseumandlibraryservices #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #presidentialtransition(us) #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #librariesandlibrarians #archivesandrecords #internetarchive #waybackmachine #trumpdonaldj #datastorage #wikipedia
Grâce à #OpenAlex et #InternetArchive, j'ai retrouvé ma page perso en doctorat. 20 ans plus tard je sais toujours pas utiliser #R, et je sais plus me servir de #LateX ni de #Stata 
https://web.archive.org/web/20081229015051/http://team.univ-paris1.fr/teamperso/beaudouin/tdpoldev.html
So... I am considering eventually making my older books available for free to the general public, but I don't want to do that on the #InternetArchive because I don't want it to be mistaken for pirated works (which are rife over there).
Are there any #OpenAccess platforms suitable for submitting works on #folklore ?
Added "Home (When Shadows Fall)" to
- #Mirlo ($2, all proceeds go to Mirlo)
https://mirlo.space/venya/release/home-when-shadows-fall
- #Bandwagon
https://bandwagon.fm/67ed452425f43909f89b55c5
- #InternetArchive https://archive.org/details/home-when-shadows-fall_202504/
And, of course, it's still on my #Faircamp site:
https://listen.soundslike.pro/home-when-shadows-fall/
So, it took forever to archive a webpage tonight via the @internetarchive . I suspect the problem is an attack from #Russia, since I saw a brief message saying a .ru page was gumming up the works!
#InternetArchive #RussianBotAttack #Censorship #WorldWorld3 #InfoWarsForReal!
Bücherverbrennungen finden heute digital statt.
Das #InternetArchive rettet derzeit zehntausende gelöschte #Regierungsseiten, die unter #Trump|s zweiter Amtszeit entfernt wurden.
Die #gemeinnützigeOrganisation speichert täglich rund #100Terabyte an #Webseiten, #digitalenMedien und #Regierungsdokumenten.
Besonders betroffen sind Inhalte zu #Klimawandel, #Gleichstellung und #öffentlicherGesundheit, die im Zuge neuer politischer Richtlinien verschwinden. (1/2)
Internet Archive, dijital dünyada bir zaman yolculuğu! 
1996'dan bu yana web sitelerinin geçmişini arşivleyen bu platform, Wayback Machine ile milyonlarca web sayfasını erişilebilir kılıyor. Geçmişi keşfetmek için tıklayın: https://web.archive.org 
#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #DijitalKütüphane #turkey #türkiye
@tagesschau Es gibt derzeit eine Menge Freiwillige, die Forschungsdaten retten. Folgt @SafeguardingResearch und @internetarchive für mehr Info! Wäre auch mal einen Artikel wert, was Freiwillige im #Widerstand leisten.
Das Wort wird zwar gern überstrapaziert, aber staatlich, noch dazu von der Regierung angeordnete Löschung aus politischen Gründen ist tatsächlich ganz eindeutig Zensur: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zensur_(Informationskontrolle)
I don't wanna bother the people of the Internet Archive, are there any experts here who can explain this?
s. a. Screenshot from the Internet Archive showing a page clearly marked with the symbol for audio files but it is only showing the infromation of the record sleeve and booklet, no audio files available. There is also the information: This item is available with audio samples only; which is even more confusing.
Why?
@avdempsey some tags to help get the word out about https://archive.org/about/jobs these jobs: #getFediHired #fediHire #work #software #IA #InternetArchive #libraries
"According to Graham, based on the big jump in page views he's observed over the past two months, the Internet Archive is drawing many more visitors than usual to its services — journalists, researchers and other inquiring minds. Some want to consult the archive for information lost or changed in the purge, while others aim to contribute to the archival process.
"There's a groundswell of support for the Internet Archive because of the dramatic shift that's going on in parts of the government web infrastructure that you wouldn't imagine would change," said Brewster Kahle, the founder and current director of the Internet Archive. "People are coming and rallying behind us — by using it, by pointing at things, helping organize things, by submitting content to be archived — data sets that are under threat or have been taken down."
Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist at Harvard University who likened the purge to "a digital book burning" in a February interview with NPR's Ailsa Chang, is one of them. She's teamed up with other scientists to try to preserve federal health data that has recently disappeared from government websites. She helped develop a list of terms to send to the Internet Archive to aid the search and preservation effort.
"We want to preserve public health data that are crucial for people's well-being," she told NPR."
#USA #Trump #InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #DigitalArchiving #WayBackMachine
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5326573/internet-archive-wayback-machine-trump
Last week in Leiden, Brewster Kahle was presented with the 2024 ProjectUil by the Dutch Wikipedia community. He explained how the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has helped fix millions of broken links, ensuring citations on Wikipedia remain valid and accessible across multiple language editions.
https://www.veradekok.nl/en/2025/03/kahle-receives-projectuil-from-wikipedia/
@brewsterkahle @internetarchive #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #DigitalPreservation #OpenKnowledge #Wikipedia
Found out yesterday that Django Rest Framework has set all GitHub issues and pulls to hidden. I don't know enough about what that action is trying to solve to have an opinion...
BUT...
Thanks to the WayBackMachine, I can still "see" one of the bugs I've opened that I'm most proud of: https://web.archive.org/web/20230408140358/https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/issues/7134
Thanks #InternetArchive
As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them
npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-53265
doing an essential service for the internet!
@hyde Ah, usually I only see public domain stuff on #InternetArchive
I just finished The Dust of Egypt by Seabury Quinn. It's a pulp adventure tale from 1930. It's got mummies, mesmerism, murder and a weird, almost Jungian, obsession with the physical manifestation of the subconscious. Interestingly, for the time, it takes a dim view of looting masquerading as archeology. Check it out! #pulp #books #egypt #internetarchive
https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV15N04193004jvhSas/page/n15/mode/1up?view=theater
Update. "As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them"
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5326573/internet-archive-wayback-machine-trump
"After President Trump's inauguration in January, some federal web pages vanished. While…were removed entirely, many came back online with changes that…officials said were made to conform to Trump's executive orders to remove "diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies." Thousands of datasets were wiped — mostly at agencies focused on science and the environment…Information about climate change, reproductive health, gender identity and sexual orientation also have been on the chopping block…The #InternetArchive [@internetarchive] is among the few efforts that exist to catch the stuff that falls through the digital cracks, while also making that information accessible to the public. Six weeks into the new administration, #WaybackMachine director Graham said, the Internet Archive had cataloged some 73,000 web pages that had existed on U.S. government websites that were expunged after Trump's inauguration."
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The interview (https://www.kqed.org/news/12031980/what-happens-if-the-internet-archive-goes-dark ) to @brewsterkahle continues:
"those who control the past control the present, those who control the present control the future. The idea of a #library is part of an ecosystem of how society remembers. That’s how it thinks of itself. If you were to erase the #InternetArchive and the libraries, which is in many ways happening now, then we will live in a danger of having people be able to recast what happened"
