Book Talk: Governable Spaces

Join us for a book talk with author NATHAN SCHNEIDER. Discover how we can transform digital spaces into more democratic and creative environments, inspired by governance legacies of the past. UCSD professor and author LILLY IRANI will lead our discussion. Book Talk: Governable SpacesThursday, August 22 @ 10am PT / 1pm ETRegister now for the free, virtual … Read more

Moving Together: Introducing the 2024 DWeb Fellows

Guest blog by ngọc triệu, DWeb Fellowship Director The DWeb Camp 2024 theme is “Migration: Moving Together.”  Migration, in the context of decentralization, involves moving people and their data to a more open, secure, equitable, and accessible decentralized web. It is a call for collective action and resource gathering that will not only enable these … Read more

The Power of Preservation: How the Internet Archive Empowers Digital Investigations and Research

A part of a series: The Internet Archive as Research Library Written by Caralee Adams When gathering evidence for a court case or researching human rights violations, Lili Siri Spira often found that the material she needed was preserved by the Internet Archive. Spira is the Social Media and Campaign Marketing Manager for TechEquity Collaborative, as … Read more

Permanent Residents: A Research Guest Post

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

Build, Access, Analyze: Introducing ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub)

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

Preserving the Past, Empowering the Future: Unveiling the Wayback Machine’s Vital Role in Investigative Work

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

DLARC Adds Over 1,300 Items to New College Radio Collection

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

Book Talk: Moving Theory Into Practice

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