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This post is part of our ongoing series highlighting how our patrons and partners use the Internet Archive to further their own research and programs. From Patricia Rose, in her own words: In 2019, after retiring from an administrative career at the University of Pennsylvania, I signed up to be a tour guide at Philadelphia’s historic Laurel Hill … Read more

This post is part of our ongoing series highlighting how our patrons and partners use the Internet Archive to further their own research and programs. David Samuel, a Canadian-born viola player, has lived all over the world working as a professional musician. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he lived in Europe and New Zealand before settling … Read more

We are excited to announce the public availability of ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub), a new research and education service that helps users easily build, access, and analyze digital collections computationally at scale. ARCH represents a combination of the Internet Archive’s experience supporting computational research for more than a decade by providing large-scale data to researchers … Read more

A precious tool. That’s how Laura Ranca describes the Wayback Machine in her work. As a researcher at the Berlin-based organization Tactical Tech and its Exposing the Invisible Project, she helps people use technology to inform, educate and advance causes. Ranca trains journalists, human rights activists, scholars and everyday citizens to use the internet to investigate and gather … Read more

By Jennifer Waits, Curator of the DLARC College Radio Collection In fall 2023, after learning about the amazing breadth of The Internet Archive’s Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC), I started to dream about what a college radio version of that collection would look like. I shared with curator Kay Savetz some of my “wish-list” items, which … Read more

Join Internet Archive’s Chris Freeland for a discussion with Oya Y. Rieger about ‘Moving Theory Into Practice,’ the landmark digitization guide & workshop that sparked a revolution in digital libraries.Thursday, August 24 @ 10am PT / 1pm ET REGISTER NOW As the digital library field emerged in the mid- to late-1990s, librarians faced numerous challenges … Read more

BGSU Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives partners with Internet Archive to provide digital access to thousands of historic recordings  The BGSU Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives, one of the largest collections of popular music at an academic institution in the United States, has partnered with the Internet Archive’s Great 78 Project to digitize thousands of records … Read more

As a doctoral student in anthropology at Yale University, Spencer Kaplan often relies on the Internet Archive for his research. He is an anthropologist of technology who studies virtual communities. Kaplan said he uses the Wayback Machine to create a living archive of data that he can analyze. Last summer, Kaplan studied the blockchain community, which is active on … Read more

For fans wanting to relive an epic concert or discover upcoming bands, there are now more than 250,000 recordings in the Live Music Archive to enjoy.  The collection has steadily grown over the past 20 years as a collaborative effort between Internet Archive staff and dedicated, music-loving volunteers. At a pace of uploading nearly 30 items a … Read more

Join us on October 11th & 12th to help celebrate AI @ IA : Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence! October 11: Tour of the physical archive Please join us October 11th @ 6-8pm as we take a peek behind the doors of the physical archive in Richmond, California. We are excited to offer a behind-the-scenes … Read more