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by aminaas1573
Sat Jul 12, 2025 6:15 am
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Topic: Mirage Berry, business development manager
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Mirage Berry, business development manager

Anna Kiljas, Tufts University
The invasion of Ukraine hits particularly close to home for Anna Kijas, a librarian at Tufts University and co-founder of SUCHO, who is a Polish immigrant with family members who lived through Soviet occupation following WWII.

“Contributing to the SUCHO effort is ...
by aminaas1573
Sat Jul 12, 2025 6:00 am
Forum: Sale ws
Topic: Biodiversity Heritage Library by the numbers
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Biodiversity Heritage Library by the numbers

“The outlook for the planet is challenging,” he said. “By unlocking this historic data, we can find out where we’ve been over time to find out more about where we need to be in the future.”

JJ Dearborn, BHL data manager, discussed how digitization transforms physical books into digital objects that ...
by aminaas1573
Sat Jul 12, 2025 5:02 am
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Topic: New eBook Protection Software Gaining Popularity Among Publishers and Libraries
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New eBook Protection Software Gaining Popularity Among Publishers and Libraries

A new digital rights management (DRM) technology that is open source—and embraced by publishers—is gaining traction in the library eBook world.

Readium LCP was developed five years ago to protect digital files from unauthorized distribution. Unlike proprietary platforms, the technology is open to ...
by aminaas1573
Sat Jul 12, 2025 4:44 am
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Topic: Author Talk: Peter Baldwin, The Copyright Wars
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Author Talk: Peter Baldwin, The Copyright Wars

Join copyright scholar PAMELA SAMUELSON for a discussion with historian PETER BALDWIN about THE COPYRIGHT WARS, covering three centuries’ worth of trans-Atlantic copyright battles.

Watch recording:


Today’s copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made ...
by aminaas1573
Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:25 am
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Topic: The Easy Roll and Slow Burn of Cassette-Based Software
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The Easy Roll and Slow Burn of Cassette-Based Software

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 ...
by aminaas1573
Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:15 am
Forum: Sale ws
Topic: Image classification
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Image classification

Aa screenshot of the search tab showing a search for “landscape photograph” in a text box and a grid of images resulting from the search. This includes two images containing trees and images containing the sky and clouds.

While the search implementation isn’t perfect, it does give us an additional ...
by aminaas1573
Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:51 am
Forum: Sale ws
Topic: The questions that might come to mind are probably myriad
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The questions that might come to mind are probably myriad

This sounds like it’s incredibly slow. Why yes indeed. The tarbell format/interface linked above brought in data at a screaming 187 bytes per second, that is, a couple short sentences worth of words. Compare that with a capability of 200,000 bytes per second of an early floppy drive and you can see ...
by aminaas1573
Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:39 am
Forum: Sale ws
Topic: AI could facilitate more dynamic
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AI could facilitate more dynamic

I foresee AI-driven tools playing an increasingly pivotal role in many facets of my work. For instance, natural language processing could automate the categorization and summarization of large text-based datasets, making archival research more efficient and our analyses richer. AI can also be used ...
by aminaas1573
Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:31 am
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Topic: What Happened at the Virtual Library Leaders Forum?
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What Happened at the Virtual Library Leaders Forum?

In working with their students, both Bounegru and Gray share ways that the Internet Archive can be useful for research. Through hands-on research activities with the Wayback Machine they explore how it can show how web content, user interfaces and web categories change. It can even provide evidence ...
by aminaas1573
Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:17 am
Forum: Sale ws
Topic: The following can count on support from the Moscow Government
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The following can count on support from the Moscow Government

citizens of the Russian Federation, however, one of the spouses must be registered in the capital;
spouses must stand in line as those in need of better living conditions;
the family must have a high income (this is necessary so that the couple can make loan payments or immediately buy the living ...