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Patrons come to the Internet Archive’s software collections for many reasons, and among the major reasons are some manner of playing historical software in our in-browser emulation environment. Well over a decade old now, the Emularity gives near-instant access to functional versions of what would otherwise be dormant software packages. If a patron wants to … Read more

Internet Archive’s Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications continues to expand its collection of online resources about ham radio, shortwave, amateur television, and related communications. The library has grown to more than 75,000 items, with new resources including newsletters, podcasts, and conference presentations. DLARC has recently added hundreds of presentations recorded by RATPAC, the Radio Amateur Training Planning … Read more

Join us on October 22nd & 23rd to help celebrate the vital role of libraries in preserving our shared digital culture. October 22: Tour the Physical Archive Please join us on Tuesday, October 22 from 6-8pm as we take a peek behind the doors of the Physical Archive in Richmond, California. We are excited to … Read more

A previously lost cache of celebrity and historical interviews from a long-dormant radio show have been discovered, digitized, and made available for all. The Internet Archive is now home to 53 episodes of The Famous Computer Cafe, a 1980s radio show about the new world of home computers. The program included computer industry news, product reviews, … Read more

Chatbots, like OpenIA’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and others, have a hallucination problem (their term, not ours). It can make something up and state it authoritatively. It is a real problem. But there can be an old-fashioned answer, as a parent might say: “Look it up!” Imagine for a moment the Internet Archive, working with responsible … Read more

If you’ve ever been to a typical tech event, full of neon-lit booths and cavernous main stage talks, you know it’s just about the last place you’d want to bring your kids. So why would we make children such an integral part of DWeb Camp? It harks back to some of our core principles: At DWeb Camp we … Read more

Join Kyle K. Courtney & Juliya Ziskina of Library Futures for a review of how publisher interests have attempted to hinder the library mission. Watch recording:https://archive.org/embed/the-publisher-playbook FROM THE ABSTRACT: Libraries have continuously evolved their ability to provide access to collections in innovative ways. Many of these advancements in access, however, were not achieved without overcoming serious … Read more

This Spring, the Internet Archive hosted two in-person workshops aimed at helping to advance library support for web archive research: Digital Scholarship & the Web and Art Resources on the Web. These one-day events were held at the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) conference in Pittsburgh and the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) conference … Read more

Episode: ‘Meet the man archiving Biden’s presidency’ From POLITICO Tech: “The transition from one presidential administration to the next is generally thought to start around Election Day and end with the inauguration. But for the Internet Archive, it’s already underway. The nonprofit leads a coalition of libraries and universities that works to preserve the government’s digital history … Read more

Guest Post by Daniel Van Strien, Machine Learning Librarian, Hugging Face Machine learning has many potential applications for working with GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) collections, though it is not always clear how to get started. This post outlines some of the possible ways in which open source machine learning tools from the Hugging Face ecosystem … Read more