Category Archives: Announcements

Decentralized Web Summit with Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, and Polyfill

Posted on June 12, 2016 by brewster

[NYtimes, Fortune, Boing Boing, other press] Vint Cerf (father of the Internet) called for a “Self-Archiving Web” at the Decentralized Web Summit (link) kickoff talk. What this meant and how do to it evolved over the meeting and now seems … Continue reading →

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Copyright Office’s Proposed Notice and Staydown System Would Force the Internet Archive and Other Platforms to Censor the Web

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Lila Bailey

In May, the US Copyright Office came to San Francisco to hear from various stakeholders about how well Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA is working. The Internet Archive appeared at these hearings to talk about … Continue reading →

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Web Archiving with National Libraries

Posted on May 26, 2016 by helen

After the Internet Archive started web archiving in the late 1990s, National libraries also took their first steps towards systematic preservation of the web. Over 30 national libraries currently have a web archiving programme. Many among them archive the web … Continue reading →

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Join us for the first Decentralized Web Summit — June 8-9, in SF

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Wendy Hanamura

The first Decentralized Web Summit is a call for dreamers and builders who believe we can lock the Web open for good. This goal of the Summit (June 8) and Meetup featuring lightning talks and workshops (June 9) is to spark collaboration and … Continue reading →

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The tech powering the Political TV Ad Archive

Posted on May 12, 2016 by danschultz

Ever wonder how we built the Political TV Ad Archive? This post explains what happens back stage — how we are using advanced technology to generate the counts for how many times a particular ad has aired on television, where, … Continue reading →

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Discover Books Donates Large Numbers of Books

Posted on May 11, 2016 by brewster

Internet Archive is proud to partner with Discover Books, a major used book seller, to help let the stories in books live on.   Discover books is donating books that the Internet Archive does not yet own and would have gone … Continue reading →

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Reflections on From Clay to the Cloud: The Internet Archive and Our Digital Legacy, a.k.a. The Internet Archive – The Exhibition!

Posted on April 29, 2016 by caitlin

Photograph by Jason Scott By Carolyn Peter It started with a visit to Nuala Creed’s ceramics studio in Petaluma in the spring of 2014. My interest was piqued as she described “a commission of sculptures for the Internet Archive” that … Continue reading →

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Google Library Project Legal: Let the Robots Read!

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Lila Bailey

The decade-long legal battle over Google’s massive book scanning project is finally over, and it’s a huge win for libraries and fair use. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the Author’s Guild, which had argued … Continue reading →

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Truck and Back Again: The Internet Archive Truck Takes a Detour

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Jason Scott

When one of our employees came out of his home over the weekend, he saw an empty parking space. Granted, in San Francisco, that’s a pretty precious thing, but since this empty parking space had held the Internet Archive Truck … Continue reading →

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New video shows rich resources available at Political TV Ad Archive

Posted on April 7, 2016 by nancyw

Since our launch on January 22, the Political TV Ad Archive has archived more than 1,080 ads with more than 155,000 airings. We’ve trained hundreds of journalists, students, and other interested members of the public with face-to-face trainings. But much … Continue reading →

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The Internet Archive, ALA, and SAA Brief Filed in TV News Fair Use Case

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Lila Bailey

The Internet Archive, joined by the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Society of American Archivists filed an amicus brief in Fox v. TVEyes on March 23, 2016. In … Continue reading →

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Three takeaways after logging 1,032 political ads in the primaries

Posted on March 23, 2016 by nancyw

The Political TV Ad Archive launched on January 22, 2016, with the goal of archiving airings of political ads across 20 local broadcast markets in nine key primary states and embedding fact checks and source checks of those ads by … Continue reading →

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Save our Safe Harbor: Submission to Copyright Office on the DMCA Safe Harbor for User Contributions

Posted on March 22, 2016 by brewster

The United States Copyright Office is seeking feedback on how the “notice and takedown” system created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, also known as the “DMCA Safe Harbors,” is working. Congress decided that in this country, users of the … Continue reading →

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Guess what we find in books? A look Inside our Midwest Regional Digitization Center– by Jeff Sharpe

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Wendy Hanamura

The history of a book isn’t captured merely by the background of the author or its publishing date or its written content. Most books were purchased and read by someone; they are from a specific time and place. That too is part … Continue reading →

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Next Librarian of Congress: Carla Hayden

Posted on February 24, 2016 by brewster

The President has nominated Carla Hayden to be the next Librarian of Congress.    I have met her through IMLS and support her for this position. As a public librarian, she can bring an access and public service orientation to a … Continue reading →

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Fair Use & Access to All Human Knowledge

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Lila Bailey

This is Fair Use Week, an annual recognition of the most important user right in U.S. copyright law. Today we celebrate fair use and fair dealing along with a host of other participating groups and organizations. The fundamental goal of … Continue reading →

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How Will We Explore Books in the 21st Century?

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Greg Lindahl

I love working with the Internet Archive’s collections, especially the growing book collection. As an engineer and sometimes scholar, I know there’s a lot of human knowledge inside books that’s difficult to discover. What new things could we do to … Continue reading →

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The Political TV Ad Archive: seeing political TV ads in new way

Posted on February 5, 2016 by nancyw

A Vox reporter watched every TV ad bombarding Iowa’s voters in the lead up to the caucus–some 100 ads that aired more than 45,000 times–and  lived to tell the tale. Among Alvin Chang’s observations: female omniscient narrators are rare in political … Continue reading →

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Political TV Ad Archive launches today

Posted on January 22, 2016 by nancyw

New, free website archives political TV ads in 2016 primaries married with fact-checking and reporting from award-winning journalism partners After sifting through more than 100,000 hours of broadcast television coverage and counting, the Internet Archive today launches its new, free … Continue reading →

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Use the Archive’s resources to help make Wikipedia a better resource

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Jessamyn West

This week is Wikipedia’s 15th birthday and the Wikipedia Library has created the #1lib1ref campaign this week to encourage information professionals and others to add one citation to Wikipedia’s many [citation needed] tags in their articles. If every librarian in … Continue reading →

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