The Internet Archive built and drove a print-on-demand bookmobile across the country as a demonstration of technology and public domain policy. The interest...
[the Internet Archive is working with folks who are digitizing books and then printing them back out again e.g. http://www.archive.org/bookmobile and...
Early PC software is about to decay and it is not clear we are allowed to save it. The anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA may prevent libraries from...
[Simon visited the Internet Archive on Friday to start as a volunteer on the CDROM collection. http://www.archive.org/cdroms/cdroms.php This collection is in...
All: Might this also be a situation where Napster's peer-to-peer technology could do a lot of public good? Somehow have a site where individuals could ...
I'd love to see the Voyager titles back up and accessible. Bob Stein, one of the founding partners of the company, has regained rights to the CDs. He's told...
[on a recent trip to India, Dr Om Vikas from the Ministry of Information gave a presentation and one of the slides really hit me hard. I have reproduced it...
... At the risk of sassing my betters, I'd say that you need to get out more, Brewster. :-) This is an old idea and a common critique of globalism and...
Prentiss Riddle
riddle@...
Feb 20, 2003 1:54 am
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Hi Brewster -- Thanks for bringing this to the list's attention. I've been worried for quite some time about the erosion of both language diversity and of...
All the memories of the lives of my ancestors are recorded in the archetypes of the dreams in my mind. I write down as many of these patterns of human action...
astarius
astarius@...
Feb 20, 2003 7:02 pm
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I am very much enjoying this discussion. As a playwright I am interested in culture, diversity and language. It has been on my mind in recent times that the...
... So? Perhaps we're more aware of the loss now, but this has always happened. If there's no-one around to speak a language, and there are no written records...
Steve Thomas
stephen.thomas@...
Feb 20, 2003 7:03 pm
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Hi All. First reply to this group. Coming from an IT background, rather than a "curator". Without being a an academic type since leaving University, I had...
[POPLAR IT] Paul Tegg...
pteggart@...
Feb 20, 2003 7:04 pm
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Well, this is very intersting - although I wonder if there is really proof of all the statements, for instance, items number 2, 4, and 5, and I also wonder if...
I'm not educated in the various disciplines represented by the members of this group but I know one thing from personal experience: different languages...
Brad Sounds like you have a slow connection to the internet because all the images did not have enough time to load to show that there is a parchment behind...
Simon Seamount
Astarius@...
Feb 24, 2003 12:48 pm
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I don't necessarily agree with Vikas when he says we lose art and ideas along with the loss of language. I agree that art and ideas are not static. They change...
News Library
library@...
Feb 24, 2003 12:48 pm
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... I think of knowledge more as a vehicle than a destination, more as CPU cycles than as bits stored on a disk. Today, very few drivers know how an engine...
... I have long been concerned with this topic, my own visual aid is a triangle or pyramid structure as it is often used to portray the structure of Fortune...
Michael Hart
hart@...
Apr 10, 2003 4:37 pm
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Working with WorldlinkTV, the Internet Archive is archiving and providing non-commercial access to a TV program that is of timely interest. Mosaic selects,...
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...
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