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Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the @waybackmachine.
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Sep 25 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
From @communia_eu: "The [Hachette v. Internet Archive] decision highlights more general problems with the e-lending business model, not just in the US but also in the EU....Six issues stand out in particular:" 🧵 "1. Licensing contracts expire and need to be renewed after a certain number of loans, in theory simulating the physical degradation of books, but leading to disproportionate prices overall."
Aug 18, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is why libraries need to be able to own digital media instead of just renting it from corporate landlords…who is preserving these shows? Disappearing titles are bad for libraries & the patrons we serve. Libraries want to #OwnBooks.
Aug 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
The Hachette vs Internet Archive lawsuit is about much more than our own library collection, explains @mariabustillos in @thenation. 🧵 thenation.com/article/cultur… #EmpoweringLibraries “In reality, the publishers... What’s bad about that idea? Well, it could mean libraries, as public institutions, are no longer protected from corporate greed. “The real renegades here ar...
Jul 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A group of intellectual property law professors lead by @rtushnet submitted a “friend of the court” brief in support of @internetarchive and controlled digital lending today in our case against Hachette, PRH, HarperCollins and Wiley. 🧵eff.org/document/hache… @rtushnet 2/ The law professors’ brief notes that nonprofit libraries “serve important democratic interests” and “enable a richer, more democratic culture.”
Jul 14, 2022 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
The publishers & lobbyists @AmericanPublish would have you believe their lawsuit is abt @internetarchive hurting poor authors.
But none other than @ChuckWendig writes "It’s not authors. It’s the publishers. They’re the ones doing this. Go be mad at them"
terribleminds.com/ramble/2022/07… 2/ More & more authors are speaking out against this lawsuit: @sgcarney NYT bestselling author of "What Doesn't Kill Us" writes:
Jul 14, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Authors who support @InternetArchive: 2/
Jul 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Did you know that the Internet Archive has a physical archive that houses millions of books (as in: actual, physical, paper books)? For every book that we lend to users online, we have a physical copy that is preserved in our archive. A 🧵 We get our books the same way as other libraries: we buy books and we receive donated books. Some of those donations come from libraries that are reevaluating their physical collections, like Hamilton Public Library: blog.archive.org/2021/05/26/beh…
Mar 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 6 min read
🖥️So, how many accounts & passwords do you have?
👀Research by one company finds that the average US citizen has more than 150 accounts & passwords to manage.
Crazy, right? 🧵👇
(1/4) #digitalidentity 2/ Many of us are trading #privacy & #security for convenience by handing over our personal data to big platforms that make it easier to log on...keeping our data along the way.
👉 Isn't there a better way forward?
#SSI #identity
Jan 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
BIG NEWS: On 1/1 for the first time in history, every sound recording published since the invention of records thru 1922 entered the US #publicdomain.
Including this: Fanny Brice's "Second Hand Rose."
🎉TMW: Come to our virtual "Celebration of Sound" 1/20: eventbrite.com/e/celebration-… 2/ What will you find now in the public domain? Experts say some 400,000 recordings like this one: Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag.
You can find 38,500 newly #publicdomain 78s in our collection-- now yours free to reuse & download. archive.org/details/george…
Dec 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 6 min read
Did you know @ID_AA_Carmack that back in 2018, @InternetArchive started experimenting with @IPFS @WebTorrentApp & gun.eco?

You can see our prototype decentralized Archive here:
dweb.archive.org/details/home @ID_AA_Carmack @IPFS @WebTorrentApp 2/ But back in 2018, the decentralized tech was still in its earliest days. In 2021, @InternetArchive is actively working with @IPFS @Filecoin & @Storj to preserve humanity's treasures in decentralized storage.

blog.archive.org/2021/10/19/dwe…
Oct 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
1/4 🎉To celebrate our 25th Anniversary, we commissioned @GIFmodel to create a new work contemplating 2046 & the future of the Internet.
😻Behold "Perpetual Calendar" 📆--allowing you to flip thru past & future with @GIFModel's rich vernacular graphics.
haveagood.today 2/ Internet Artist, Olia Lialina (@GIFModel) looks to the early web tradition of wishing your friends a good/happy/sexy day, often with glittering graphics.
blog.archive.org/2021/10/20/oli…
#IA2046
Oct 25, 2021 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
LIVE w/ @TheRickWilson: "The @internetarchive is tremendously important. It's got some independence to it. It has a longer time horizon. Authoritarians HATE people with long memories..."
@IA2046 #IA2046 2/ @TheRickWilson: "There are not a lot of market incentives to record our history. The $ to eyeball ratio is too low. Cultures lose when they don't have access to their own history." #IA2046
Apr 25, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize #78 rpm records.
Our partner @georgeblood_lp has perfected this technique, digitizing with 4 different styli at once.

We put as much effort into capturing the #metadata as we do digitizing the music. 2/ There's a half-century of 78 rpm recordings (1898-1950s) at risk of being lost, never heard again in the digital era.
Our goal is to save them all. 🎶
You can listen to 255,000 of these 78 rpm recordings in the George Blood Collection: archive.org/details/george…
@great78project
Apr 23, 2021 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Is there hope for the #Internet?
Artists Thomas Georg Blank & Işık Kaya @ayakkisi came to the @internetarchive to explore that theme.
🎞️Their #NewWork debuts today: a clip from Chapter 1 "song of the petabox" 👇

"And the data is so happy there you can actually hear it sing..." 2/ Thomas Georg Blank & @ayakkisi's new work is titled "When looking at stones I get sucked into deep time, when looking at my hard drive I'm afraid that it will break"

Read about their creative process & message:
blog.archive.org/2021/04/23/a-n…

#ArtistOnTwitter #artwork
Apr 19, 2021 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
10 good reasons to digitize every #book in our #libraries:

1/ 2021 - Cape Town Library: Today's tragic fire at the @UCTLibrary has destroyed its Special Collections in African Studies, including some of the oldest & rarest materials about Africa. 2/ 2018 - Nat'l Museum of Brazil in #Rio: fire destroyed much of this 200-year-old institution's collections, including its scientific library.
theguardian.com/world/2018/sep…
Mar 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
So, just how does a small-ish nonprofit like the @InternetArchive manage to serve & preserve 70 petabytes of data, 24/7 to 1+ million patrons each day?

A small, smart Infrastructure team keeps the discs spinning & data flowing. Here @jonahedwards explains
archive.org/details/jonah-… 2/ Every week, our @InternetArchive staff gathers for "Friday Lunch" & a presentation by a staff member. @jonahedwards leads our core infrastructure team. Here, he's walking us through the numbers.
Mar 11, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
📚As a library, deeply concerned about everyone's access to knowledge, it's hard to overemphasize why this Washington Post Perspective is so important.

washingtonpost.com/technology/202… 2/ That illustration says it all.
It's what digital library shelves will look like in a few years. Empty except the current bestsellers. Why? Because publishers refuse to sell ebooks to libraries, only license them thru subscriptions. (Think Netflix for library books.)
Feb 25, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Music Lovers:
gearnews.com/free-over-3000… 🎶Here's 230,000+ 78 rpm recordings: archive.org/details/78rpm
Feb 24, 2021 • 6 tweets • 7 min read
#Beat publisher, @CityLightsBooks co-founder & #poet #LawrenceFerlinghetti died yesterday at age 101.

Back in 2015, @internetarchive was honored to have him over for a "Radical Theater Dinner" w/ Bread & Puppet Theater founder, Peter Schumann & leaders of the SF Mime Troupe. ImageImage 2/ That evening, #Ferlinghetti generously autographed his books of poetry, reminisced with old friends, and recited one of his works by heart.

#poetry #RadicalMusings ImageImageImage
Feb 20, 2021 • 6 tweets • 7 min read
Today is the Day of Remembrance, commemorating the day when FDR signed Exec. Order 9066, authorizing the mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans.

@InternetArchive & @DenshoProject present the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration:
archive.org/details/digita… 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.
Feb 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Miss yesterday's How-To Session about the @OpenLibrary Explorer?

Never fear, the webinar video is now available: archive.org/details/open-l… Try the Open Library Explorer at openlibrary.org/explore & share your feedback.