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📖 Papiamento is the native language of Aruba, Bonaire, & Curaçao, but smaller languages can disappear online as English & Spanish dominate.

Peter Scholing shares how the National Library of Aruba & the Internet Archive are preserving Papiamento's written & audiovisual heritage.

📚 Read "The Wind-Blown Language: Papiamento" in VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/113/

🛒 Purchase in print:
https://betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new

#VanishingCulture #InternetArchive

Light grey-green graphic quoting Peter Scholing, Digital Librarian, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the question "How do you keep a small island's culture alive when the world shuts down?" and the quote "Online access was not just expected... but became a basic necessity and a direct life-line for many people." Greenish-black graphic quoting Peter Scholing, Digital Librarian, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "Small scale languages like Papiamento may be hard to find, and the traditional methods of language preservation are no longer sufficient."
Teal graphic quoting Peter Scholing, Digital Librarian, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "During the global COVID-19 pandemic ... the library was able to meet this increased demand by rapidly operationalizing the 'short lines' that exist between them and local book authors and publishers."

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (2026) : Luca Messarra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

DOWNLOAD THE FREE EBOOK:PDFEPUBPURCHASE A PRINT COPY:Buy the book from Better World Books or any online bookstore.Order a copy through your local...
Internet Archive
#internetarchive #vanishingculture

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government.

[via @adzebill.bsky.social‬]
[Follow IA on BS if you wish: @eotarchive.org]

#internetarchive #archives #uspol #USPolitics

https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/end-of-term-web-archive/

End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

blog.archive.org
#uspol #internetarchive #uspolitics #archives

I found yesterday that hundreds of 2D Artist Magazine where uploaded to the Internet Archive, and I really enjoy browsing them for the quality tutorials, interviews and amazing artist portfolios. I thought some of you here might like it as well:
https://archive.org/details/2dartistmagazine

#archives #internetarchive #digitalpainting #MastoArt #computergraphics

A screenshot of the website Internet Archive with a sample of the covers of the magazine 2D Artists.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org
#mastoart #internetarchive #digitalpainting #archives #computergraphics

So @internetarchive scanning books for their digital library is copyright infringement:
http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/

But OpenAI slurping all of that to train a model that then can generate text and put actual authors out of business (already happening with copywriters), is not.

Figures, there are no $billions of VC / corporate money behind Internet Archive, why would anyone want to support a public service, right? 🤦‍♀️

IA ≠ AI, know the difference!

#InternetArchive

The Fight Continues

Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online.
chrisfreeland (Internet Archive Blogs)
#internetarchive @internetarchive

The central holding of the #InternetArchive court opinion is, if you own a physical book and scan it, you infringed the author's copyright by creating an unauthorized copy—even if you never use both at the same time. (This also implies that printing an ebook = infringement.)

That's quite bad.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.188.0.pdf

http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/
Excerpt from opinion: "The crux of IA’s first factor argument is that an organization has the right under fair use to make whatever copies of its print books are necessary to facilitate digital lending of that book, so long as only one patron at a time can borrow the book for each copy that has been bought and paid for. See Oral Arg. Tr. 31:10-15. But there is no such right, which risks eviscerating the rights of authors and publishers to profit from the creation and dissemination of derivatives of their protected works. See 17 U.S.C. §§ 106(1), (2)."

The Fight Continues

Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online.
chrisfreeland (Internet Archive Blogs)
#internetarchive

That would be a great illustration for the #scifi novel from Damon Knight: Ticket to Anywhere. (#internetarchive)
#scifi #internetarchive

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