Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure

https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting

#HackerNews #InternetArchive #Infrastructure #FightAgainstForgetting #WebPreservation #DigitalLibrary

Stewart Cheifet, PBS host who chronicled the PC revolution, dies at 87 https://arstechni.ca/rakC #ComputerChronicles #Vintagecomputing #computerhistory #InternetArchive #machinelearning #retrocomputing #StewartCheifet #GaryKildall #Obituaries #retrotech #Tech #PBS #AI

#WritersCoffeeClub Jan. 4: Share a tool of your trade.

Digital archives of public domain works, since they provide the German folk tale collections I translate.

The #InternetArchive and Google Books are the most important ones I use, but honorable mentions go out to:

Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/

Silesian Digital Library:
https://sbc.org.pl/dlibra

Russian State Library:
https://search.rsl.ru/

all of which have large numbers of German-language books in the public domain as well.

The #InternetArchive hosts its own research paper search databse, for papers in the archive: https://scholar.archive.org/

There are publications that use the IA as their storage backend, see for example: https://archive.org/details/@international_research_journal_on_advanced_engineering_hub_irjaeh_2584-2137_onl

The #InternetArchive hosts its own research paper search databse, for papers in the archive: https://scholar.archive.org/

There are publications that use the IA as their storage backend, see for example: https://archive.org/details/@international_research_journal_on_advanced_engineering_hub_irjaeh_2584-2137_onl

This afternoon I'm trying a new approach to digitising. I've got a small stack of 1920-40 letters, and am photographing them all in a set and shall upload them as a single #InternetArchive item. This is slightly annoying from the IA browsing perspective, because they're not all related other than roughly in time and in connection with Q33169956, but it will be faster! Each will get its own catalogue record, and so will be in context there (along with transcriptions etc.).

I do rather like the #InternetArchive zoom feature, with its progressive higher-resolution loading the more you zoom (is that the IIIF API in action?).

Does anyone know what this crest might be? I assumed it was a buffalo to start with, but it does say 'tiger'…

https://archive.org/details/BUFF2024-7/page/n191/mode/1up

#IRL examples:
Network of Learning,
#OpenStreetMap, @openstreetmap
A community-built map, not controlled by #Google or #Apple.

Small Public Squares,
#Mastodon, @Mastodon
Decentralized social media—no ads, no algorithms, just people talking.

Sacred Sites,
#InternetArchive, @internetarchive @internetarchiveeurope
A non-profit library of the web, preserving knowledge for all.

Mosaic of Subcultures,
#PeerTube, @peertube
A #YouTube alternative where communities host their own #video platforms.

The Internet Archive (IA) @internetarchive seems down.

As far as I can tell there is no information shared on the mentioned platforms on this downtime. Perhaps @internetarchiveeurope knows more?

I find it a bit strange & perhaps too coincidental given that people were using IA to share the CECOT CBS snippet. Is it down because of this?

Update: IA are working to resolve this.

#InternetArchive #Politics #USA #CECOT #Internet #Tech #HumanRights

#IRL examples:
Network of Learning,
#OpenStreetMap, @openstreetmap
A community-built map, not controlled by #Google or #Apple.

Small Public Squares,
#Mastodon, @Mastodon
Decentralized social media—no ads, no algorithms, just people talking.

Sacred Sites,
#InternetArchive, @internetarchive @internetarchiveeurope
A non-profit library of the web, preserving knowledge for all.

Mosaic of Subcultures,
#PeerTube, @peertube
A #YouTube alternative where communities host their own #video platforms.

This morning I've rejigged my #InternetArchive backup script (that syncs all my uploads back down to here) and it's running well — but I've just noticed how little space I have left locally! I think for the first time in ages I actually Need More Storage. Does this make me a #dataHoarder?!

Many thanks to @internetsociety for hosting a great workshop where @blmurch shared lessons from @internetarchiveeurope She jumped into an impromptu discussion about connecting wider research communities to historical Internet data as part of the Internet Data Trust work. If you’re working with web archives or historical datasets, I’d love to hear your experiences and ideas — please share below. #InternetArchive #WebArchives #InternetData #Research #DataTrust #DigitalPreservation

Many thanks to @internetsociety for hosting a great workshop where @blmurch shared lessons from @internetarchiveeurope She jumped into an impromptu discussion about connecting wider research communities to historical Internet data as part of the Internet Data Trust work. If you’re working with web archives or historical datasets, I’d love to hear your experiences and ideas — please share below. #InternetArchive #WebArchives #InternetData #Research #DataTrust #DigitalPreservation

@sundogplanets In the case they would delete it, it is archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20250906143632/https://starlink.com/public-files/Starlink_Approach_to_Satellite_Demisability.pdf

and here: https://archive.ph/XZvrh

#WaybackMachine #InternetArchive #Starlink #SpaceX #spaceDebris

Where has this plugin been my whole life? LOL

https://wordpress.org/plugins/internet-archive-wayback-machine-link-fixer/

Seriously!

#Plugin #WordPress #InternetArchive

#rclone has built-in support for uploading to and downloading from the #internetArchive (because IA has a fairly S3-compatible API). This is super useful for keeping local copies of items up to date without re-downloading everything.

#rclone has built-in support for uploading to and downloading from the #internetArchive (because IA has a fairly S3-compatible API). This is super useful for keeping local copies of items up to date without re-downloading everything.

The @internetarchive is down, and nobody knows why
#archive #archiveorgdown #internetarchive #internetarchivedown