Create|Curate with Archive.org
Internet Archive will be accepting 52 people for week long tumblr residencies. We are looking for creators, hackers, educators, curators, tumblr kids and anyone else looking to play with some code and content. Applications are due June 1st.
Here’s how it works: You create a custom tumblr theme at a url we supply and post a week’s worth of stuff from the vast depths of the Internet Archive. You can sequence, combine and remix it any way you want. We’ll be here to help you along in your exploration.
When your week comes up, we’ll change our theme at this url to the one you coded and reblog your week’s worth of posts. After you’re featured, your residency will be archived at its original url.
Virtual residents receive access to our staff in assisting with use of our resources and the resident’s coding, in addition to the featuring of the resident’s collaborative work. This is a project using public platforms following open source ideals and is a volunteer outreach effort for our non-profit organization. There is no residency or application fee, nor any location or identity based requirement. Any content needed for theme development will be hosted on the Archive’s servers without cost.
Interested? Fill out our form, let us know about you and show us a tumblr you’re proud to have made. The deadline for applications is June 1st, 2013. Once we make our selections, we’ll send you the full details. For other inquiries, contact ian@archive.org.
Feel free to reblog this open call.
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent free access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco, the Archive was officially designated as a library by the State of California in 2007.
In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. We celebrated 10 petabytes of information archived in 2012. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.
The Archive contains over 1 million video files, 100 thousand music files, 1.5 million audio recordings, 45 thousand software programs, 280 billion web pages, and almost 4.5 million texts.
You can read more about our organization on our site and on wikipedia.
“Let a thousand Jon Stewarts bloom.”
—Brewster Kahle, founder, Internet Archive, to the New York Times. All the TV News Since 2009, on One Web Site.
The News: Archive.org has recorded every news program from 20 US news sources since 2009. Today they release 350,000 broadcasts to the world. You can start your remixing here.
Internet Archive and Library Partners Develop Joint Collection of 80,000+ eBooks To Extend Traditional In-Library Lending Model
archive.orgToday, a group of libraries led by the Internet Archive announced a new, cooperative 80,000+ eBook lending collection of mostly 20th century books on OpenLibrary.org, a site where it’s already possible to read over 1 million eBooks without restriction. During a library visit, patrons with an OpenLibrary.org account can borrow any of these lendable eBooks using laptops, reading devices or library computers. This new twist on the traditional lending model could increase eBook use and revenue for publishers.
What Book is the Internet Archive Scanning Right This Minute?
statusboard.archive.orgIf you like the Live Statusboard don’t miss these behind-the-scenes photos of the Internet Archive’s book scanning center in San Francisco.
“We want to collect one copy of every book,” said Brewster Kahle, who has spent $3 million to buy and operate this repository situated just north of San Francisco. “You can never tell what is going to paint the portrait of a culture.”
—Internet Archive’s Repository Collects Thousands of Books - NYTimes.comInternet Archive
archive.orgThis site has thousands of full-length high-quality live performances, among other things: aduio books, news, etc. Get at it.
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine (web page archive)
archive.orgThe Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has been archiving the static content of the world-wide web since 1996. With it, it’s possible to see what a web page contained in the past, or view a page that no longer exists.
Website operators can exclude their site from archival or request removal of already-archived pages, so this doesn’t always work (particularly when the author of the page took it down because, for any reason, they no longer wanted people to see it). Also, there’s a delay of “a few months”, so you can’t view a web page from last week.
Even so, the Wayback Machine is an invaluable resource for research and resurrection. You can see it demonstrated in a previous Essentials post that links to something originally published in late 2001.
