On May 13, 2003, we spoke at a Copyright Office DMCA hearing to ask for an exemption to allow archiving of software. This page has some links to the software...
Archivists, Our offer is to have the Internet Bookmobile show up to make books anywhere in they bay area. Our request is that you help with time or money to...
My son put a few books on Sri Lanka history online at my website http:/lakdiva.org/ and instead of just putting images of the pages of the book did OCR and put...
... I don't know what alphabet these texts use, but my experience is that the ABBYY FineReader (www.finereader.com) OCR software gives very good results with...
Archivists, As archivists and librarians we are increasingly having to understand the arcana of the copyright and trademark laws. There is an exhibit that...
Anna Patterson built a search engine for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine! She has indexed a portion of the full archive, 11 billion pages, and is...
Yippie! The Live music archive just received its 10,000th concert recording! Congratulations and thanks to the etree community and the artists and bands that...
fun facts from the archive. GNN.tv produced a get-out-the-vote Eminem video that they uploaded to the Archive. While we have a gigabit connection to the...
A case about allowing libraries support out-of-print materials, or "Orphan works" was dismissed at the district level and will be appealed. below is an article...
The Million Books Project will be posting 10's of thousands of books later this month on the Archive and elsewhere. These were scanned in India by the Indian...
Simon and some users put a bunch of Tsunami videos on the Internet Archive last week and it is dominating our access still (over 35% of our accesses to non...
Dear Internet Archive Colleagues: My announcements on the below survey resulted in numerous auto-reply messages to the effect that people would not be back in...
The good folks at Stanford Center for Internet and Society has helped file the appeal of Kahle v. Ashcroft. This suit is about "orphan works", or works that...
DigiCULT Thematic Issue 7 - Now Available The Future Digital Heritage Space. An Expedition Report. This report summarises the results of an expedition into the...
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Through an outpouring of good work of bands, tapers, and fans, we have hit a major milestone: 20,000 live music concert recordings are being freely shared and...
DigiCULT: Technology Watch Report 3 - Now Available "Core Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector", January 2005 As in previous TWRs, this...
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http://www.orphanworks.org/ When you can't find copyright holders, copyright becomes a quagmire. Let's fix it. For designers, academics, artists, musicians,...
Libraries have been traditional homes of the literary "orphans" (works whose owners are hard to find). The Internet Archive and Prelinger Archives have filed...
Brewster and everyone -- 'Thought this community activity would interest you and your community. Social Network Media Summit: Business Blogs and The Engelbart ...
Hi -- Can anyone tell me where to find this address online for viewing? Library of Congress Series on Digital Future - Part 2 The second in the Library of...
Hi Molly -- Yes. According to: Cassy Ammen Reference Specialist Library Services Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540-4660 It is also here. Thanks. ...
This is a gem. It's the first talk I've heard Brewster give that explains in detail where this (hopefully) is all going. ... From: Internet Archive...
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Hi -- Learned of this today. http://netpreserve.org/about/index.php "The mission of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) is to acquire,...
Doesn't anyone have the text of Brewster's talk for us low-bandwidth prehistorics; if so, I would appreciate a copy. regards, Bill Dunn [Non-text portions of...
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... Somebody should write a web-based transcription tool, something like pgdp.net, but instead of looking at a scanned book image and editing OCR text, we...
... Too right, Lars. It should interface with sth like ting-wiki, and there should be an option for multiple people to be watching the same stream and...