World Wide Web, one where disinformation and propaganda are easier to challenge, and therefore weaken.
Yes, there are 4 major publishers suing to destroy a significant part of the Internet Archive’s book corpus, but we are appealing this ruling. We believe that one role of a research library like the Internet Archive, is to own collections that can be used in new ways by researchers and the general public to understand their world.
What is required? Common purpose, partners, and money. We see a role for a Public AI Research laboratory that can mine vast collections without rights issues arising. While the collections are significant already, we see collecting, digitizing, and making available the publications of the democracies around the world to expand the corpus greatly.
We see roles for scientists, researchers, humanists, ethicists, phone number list engineers, governments, and philanthropists, working together to build a better Internet.
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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 and Activities Committee, and dozens of talks given at the MicroHams Digital Conference.
DLARC is adding newsletters from amateur radio groups around the world: the latest additions include 1,400 news bulletins from Irish Radio Transmitters Society going back to 1998, and more than 600 newsletters from the Worldwide TV-FM DX Association, a hobby club devoted to long-distance television and FM communications. The library has also added newsletters from regional groups across the United States, including the Anchorage (Alaska) Amateur Radio Club, Indianapolis (Indiana) Radio Club, the Pikes Peak (Colorado Springs, Colorado) Radio Amateur Association, and a dozen other organizations. Many of these newsletters have never been posted to the Internet before. All are full-text searchable, and can be read online or downloaded.
Internationally known radio host Glenn Hauser has allowed decades of his radio content to be archived in the DLARC library, including 1,200 episodes of World of Radio, which explores communications from around the world, especially shortwave radio; Informe DX and Mundo Radial, Spanish language translations of World of Radio; Continent of Media, a program about media around the American continent; and Hauserlogs, shortwave listening diaries.
International Radio Report, a program about radio in Montreal Canada and around the world, has also been archived in the library with episodes going back to 2000. Many of these episodes, spanning May 2000 through March 2005, have not been available online for more than a decade, restoring access to important contemporary reporting.
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