🙌 Announcing: a new portal for the #Decentralized Web. If you've ever wondered how to find allies, partners, resources, events & writings about the DWeb, this new website is designed just for you.
2/ And in just a few hours, join us for the DWeb Meetup, where the design team behind this website will take you on a guided tour.
Plus, you can dive into the new DWeb principles, the north star for builders of a better web.
TODAY at 10am PT: eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetup-…
3/ What are the values that must underly a better web? Over the last year, dozens of community members have helped to hone these five principles of the Decentralized Web: getdweb.net/principles
They are a starting point, not the end. We invite you to help iterate & grow them.
4/ To learn more about the process of defining the DWeb Principles, @maira & @johnconorryan, who led the process, have mapped out the back story.
Today is the Day of Remembrance, commemorating the day when FDR signed Exec. Order 9066, authorizing the mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans.
With a grant from the @NatlParkService, we have purchased & digitized 600+ books about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, making these often out-of-print books available to researchers, students, @Wikipedia editors & the public.
3/ Ranging from children's books, photo anthologies to scholarly works, the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration is among the largest collections of online books about this subject. #history#JapaneseAmericans#WWII
The oldest cookbook in that collection is by Bartolomeo Scappi (c. 1500–1577), the most famous chef of the Italian Renaissance. Scappi was the personal chef to 2 popes & compiled this 978-page tome of recipes, cooking utensils & menus. archive.org/details/operav…
3/ Italy's most famous chef included these meticulous engravings on the ideal 16th c. kitchen, the tools, utensils & operations needed to cook for a Pope. #CatholicChurch#History
Do you follow @ReadersFirst, a coalition of 300 libraries representing 200M readers? Here's what they have to say about the Big 5 #publishers business practices vis-a-vis #libraries:
@ReadersFirst From @ReadersFirst: "Big 5’s treatment of literature as a commodity create an intolerable burden on libraries. We seemed doomed to a carousel of only what the Big 5 publishers think is commercially viable now."
3/ "We again call upon The Big 5 to come to the table to negotiate better license terms, encourage libraries to explore mid- and smaller publishers offerings that have better terms and prices—let’s MAKE a market rather than relying on the big publishers alone..."
@l_matthia@mikaellaakso@najkoja So far the @internetarchive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles.
"One of our goals is to archive as many of the articles on the open web as we can, and to keep up with the growing stream of new articles published every day."
@l_matthia@mikaellaakso@najkoja Goal #2: " Another is to look back over the vast petabytes of web content in the Wayback Machine back to 1996, and find any content we might already have but is not easily findable or discoverable."
See the blog for graph of what we have, what someone else has, what's missing.
No other organization provides a backup to this content, so if it’s wiped out, it’s permanently gone."
@LexisNexis 3/ From @LexisNexis: "Even if the @openlibrary is forced to close, information-access supporters (including many lawyers) hope that the organization can continue the #WaybackMachine and other preservation efforts that publishers aren’t targeting in the lawsuit."