We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Future Knowledge, a new podcast from the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance. Hosted by Chris Freeland, librarian at the Internet Archive, and Dave Hansen, executive director of Authors Alliance, the series brings together authors, librarians, policymakers, technologists, and artists to explore how knowledge, creativity, and policy intersect in today’s fast-changing world.

In each episode, an author discusses their book or publication and the big ideas behind it—paired with a thought-provoking conversation partner who brings a fresh perspective from the realms of policy, technology, libraries, or the arts.

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Future Knowledge, a new podcast from the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance. Hosted by Chris Freeland, librarian at the Internet Archive, and Dave Hansen, executive director of Authors Alliance, the series brings together authors, librarians, policymakers, technologists, and artists to explore how knowledge, creativity, and policy intersect in today’s fast-changing world.

In each episode, an author discusses their book or publication and the big ideas behind it—paired with a thought-provoking conversation partner who brings a fresh perspective from the realms of policy, technology, libraries, or the arts.

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Future Knowledge, a new podcast from the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance. Hosted by Chris Freeland, librarian at the Internet Archive, and Dave Hansen, executive director of Authors Alliance, the series brings together authors, librarians, policymakers, technologists, and artists to explore how knowledge, creativity, and policy intersect in today’s fast-changing world.

In each episode, an author discusses their book or publication and the big ideas behind it—paired with a thought-provoking conversation partner who brings a fresh perspective from the realms of policy, technology, libraries, or the arts.

Ever wonder how government documents, once locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, become searchable and accessible online? Now you can see it happen in real time.

On March 15, 2025, the United States Agency for Global Media terminated grants to RFE/RL and Radio Free Asia following a directive from the Trump Administration.

On March 18, RFE/RL sued USAGM and two USAGM officials to block the grant termination.

The Czech Republic is pushing for EU support to keep Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) running after the Trump administration cut funding for the global broadcaster [1].

quote from the wiki: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Radio_Free_Europe

The post in the link was submitted on Jan. 30. and OP said the email was sent 3 days before that, which would put the beginning of archival (3 months from date of email) on April 27.

(sorry to post this again but i figured maybe someone can hear about it last minute)

“It became clear if we really wanted people to benefit from our resources that digitization was the way to go,” said Netherland, managing director of the Alliance’s Department of Research and Academic Engagement. It was also an opportunity to add to the growing collection of the Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists (SALIS).

Now, the digital version of the DPA library, with 2,260 items, is available to the public at https://archive.org/details/dpa. It is part of the larger SALIS collection of 8,647 items on alcohol and substance abuse digitized by SALIS.

A coalition of major record labels has filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive—demanding $700 million for our work preserving and providing access to historical 78rpm records. These fragile, obsolete discs hold some of the earliest recordings of a vanishing American culture. But this lawsuit goes far beyond old records. It’s an attack on the Internet Archive itself.

Videos not viewed within the last year will start to be archived, watchable only by the uploader, and then deleted after a three month grace period.

If you have anything you hold dear on Dailymotion, it is well past time to start hoarding it.

According to the Standard, the nonprofit was halfway through an NEH grant of $345,000 when its funding was abruptly cut.

It's an especially important initiative, considering the organization was busy archiving websites targeted by the Trump administration.

From wikipedia:

It is the largest and oldest of the U.S. international broadcasters, producing digital, TV, and radio content in 48 languages for affiliate stations around the world

From the AT wiki:

Under the second Trump administration, almost all of VOA's 1,300 journalists, producers and assistants were placed on administrative leave. There is risk that Voice of America will be shut down.

Archival has been ongoing for two weeks now, capturing millions of articles, reaching over 200 terabytes of data, including countless videos and images.

The grab is going a bit slow, as AT has a rate limit on how many items it lets warriors grab at once. As such, running more warriors with this project won't make a difference in archival speed right now.

14M items (articles, assets) have been archived, 16M are waiting to be processed, with 10M items so far that failed to be archived.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60220581

It starts off with a stop motion part starring dominoes in front of a little building, and then transitions to a number of scenes featuring some fun camera trickery.

I find it fun that this is essentially the exact same thing we used to make as kids some 60 years later, only we used a digital camera!

It starts off with a stop motion part starring dominoes in front of a little building, and then transitions to a number of scenes featuring some fun camera trickery.

I find it fun that this is essentially the exact same thing we used to make as kids some 60 years later, only we used a digital camera!

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60203394

Dr. Brad Hafford shares his thoughts about modern and pencil-and-paper methods of recording archaeological data.

Dr. Brad Hafford shares his thoughts about modern and pencil-and-paper methods of recording archaeological data.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60191746

It’s a creative act to find and make sense of my own history, one that requires a leap of faith in order to fill in the silences, erasures, omissions, and genuine mysteries that old books and documents, records and artifacts, represent. A lot is left to the imagination. Much of what survives from the past asks more questions than we can answer. This is true for queer and trans archival traces, as it is for other aspects of humanity that are poorly accounted for in public records, or actively discriminated against through surveillance and omission in equal parts.

It’s a creative act to find and make sense of my own history, one that requires a leap of faith in order to fill in the silences, erasures, omissions, and genuine mysteries that old books and documents, records and artifacts, represent. A lot is left to the imagination. Much of what survives from the past asks more questions than we can answer. This is true for queer and trans archival traces, as it is for other aspects of humanity that are poorly accounted for in public records, or actively discriminated against through surveillance and omission in equal parts.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60186334

I don't think there's info about this one on the wiki yet: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Roblox

Looks like it will be done pretty quickly, as it was set to be the default project for warriors.

I don't think there's info about this one on the wiki yet: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Roblox

Looks like it will be done pretty quickly, as it was set to be the default project for warriors.

The archival started not long before the site was to be shut down, so there wasn't time to grab everything.

When the owners finally pulled the plug, blog posts started returning a 403 error, then later 410 errors. Images and javascript files remained downloadable for longer, but the JS files started returning 410 after a while as well. Images were still available for quite a bit longer.

Today, only so-called "tag" items were being archived, possibly because we ran out of known images, or the team sniffed out that those were still available and valuable.

The last item my warrior grabbed was a tag item at 2025-04-02T10:39:21.085891703Z

8M-14M known items are left unarchived, presumably many more millions not yet discovered.