Happy Birthday! Internet Archive, Repository Of Modern Culture, Turns 20
From The San Francisco Chronicle:
It’s more than an archive of Internet sites. The organization, founded by computer scientist and entrepreneur Brewster Kahle, now has a virtual storehouse ranging from digitally converted books and historic film to funny memes and audio recordings of Grateful Dead concerts.
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The Internet Archive has survived through community donations and by working with about 1,000 libraries around the world that pay the group to help digitize books and other material. But the site itself remains free.
“It is an organization that gives things away,” Kahle said. “Who does that? The interesting thing is that ‘free’ works so well on the Web.”
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SEE ALSO…NEW THIS WEEK
- New Beta Release Allows Users to Keyword Search Some Material Found in The Wayback Machine
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Full Text Books: The Internet Archive’s “Open Library” Announces New and Enhanced Features
See Also: Profile: Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive (October 13, 2012)
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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