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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.

[–] archivist@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

In case you haven't looked into it yourself yet...

ArchiveTeam are independent from IA, but their stuff mostly does end up uploaded into the Wayback Machine. Storage space (like yours) isn't usually what they are looking for, but rather the internet bandwidth and "virgin" IP address of aforementioned "warriors" running their code to scrape different websites, and then uploading the results to AT's servers, where they are collected and eventually uploaded again to IA.

Check out https://tracker.archiveteam.org/ for current projects

 

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!

 

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.

 

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.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by archivist@lemm.ee to c/archaeology@mander.xyz
 

Ukrainian soldiers digging defensive fortifications stumbled upon an ancient Greek burial site in southern Ukraine.

Archived: archive.org, archive.ph

[–] archivist@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wasn't sure where to cross-post it on .ca! Québec, duh! Thanks.

Old "mundane" footage like this is always interesting, I would say!

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by archivist@lemm.ee to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60023388

Archive Team has just begun the distributed archiving of the Japanese SS Blog, a blog hosting service, which is set to be discontinued on March 31, 2025.

And you can help! There isn't much time left, so as many people running the warrior as possible is needed.

Resources:

  • The wiki page of the project (not much info)
  • The tracker (at the top of the page) has the simplest info on how you can help out
  • The github page offers a docker-based alternative for advanced users, and more info on best practices for this sort of archiving

Why help out?

The web is disappearing all the time, and often a lot of previously easily accessible information is lost to time. These japanese blogs may not be very important to you, but they certainly are to a lot of people, and nobody knows what sort of information is found only here, until they need it.

 

Dr. Brad Hafford tells us about a small piece of gold they found at Ur.