Archive
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Part one of the Archive documentary: features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to create universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive’s staff have built the world’s largest online library, offering 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts.
The video includes a tour of the Internet Archive’s headquarters in San Francisco, the book scanning center, and the book storage facilities in Richmond, California.
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Recovering Eyebeam’s Archive in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
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10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes archived! Video of the 10 Petabyte Blackout at the Internet Archive
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Crazy Man Prophesies Outlandish But Possible Thing
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A peak inside the Internet Archive
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IBM’s first magnetic disk memory storage, RAMAC. Total storage capacity: 5,000,000 characters (5 megabytes)
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“My Petabyte Roommate”: Jason Scott spends a night at Internet Archive and cozies up to the Wayback machine
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Way back when compact disks were the future
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Digital Humanists Build Time Machines
Giza 3D gives virtual tourists access to an immersive environment simulating the Great Pyramids, complete with ’ancient funeral rites’: a collaboration between Dassault Systèmes and the Harvard Peabody Museum.
The collections and repositories that these institutions house live or die as a function of the communities that animate them, whether now or in the future. And there is no inherent reason why such animation should be provided only by bona fide researchers and scholars, rather than by students of all ages, citizen scholars, collectors, or merely curious internauts.
(Historically Informed) Time Travel, Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard MetaLab
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Mapping History
What if maps had a 4th dimension, of history ? New York Public Library Labs @nypl_labs is building time machines for placing archival documents in space and time; a transformative tool for research in the digital humanities.
