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The Internet Archive, Trying to Encompass All Creation
The Internet Archive contains seven million texts, 2.1 million audio recordings, and 1.8 million videos, and serves from two to three million visitors a day.
Credit: David Rinehart
The Internet Archive, the organization behind the Wayback Machine, recently held an event at its San Francisco headquarters to show off some of its latest projects.
Robert Miller, the Archive's director of books, unveiled a new portable book scanner that will enable the archive to scan books in the field rather than having to bring them to its old, stationary scanner.
Roger Macdonald, director of the Television Archive, introduced the Philly Political Media Watch Project, a pilot program bringing together the Internet Archive, the Sunlight Foundation, Philadelphia's Committee of Seventy watchdog group, the Linguistic Data Consortium, and the University of Delaware's Center for Community Research and Service. The project is an effort to record political advertisements and the newscasts in which they initially appear to give journalists and researchers a means to evaluate the ads and the media's response to them.
The event's third area of focus was music, with the Archive unveiling a physical listening room at its headquarters. The Archive is collaborating with major labels and other archives to preserve physical and digital music. "Preserving music is now urgent as tapes are disintegrating, disc formats are used less, and new Web-only music has blossomed," says Archive founder Brewster Kahle.
From The New York Times
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