When Online Content Disappears: 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible

ZephirAWT · 2024-05-26T09:06:46+00:00

Study finds that we could lose science if publishers go bankrupt A scan of archives shows that lots of scientific papers aren't backed up.
We risk losing access to the world’s academic knowledge, and copyright makes things worse.
What the Hachette versus Internet Archive: Digital Library Decision Means for Archive Library

Less than 1 percent of the 204 publishers had put the majority of their content into multiple archives.... Fewer than 10 percent had put more than half their content in at least two archives. And a full third seemed to be doing no organized archiving at all. Public archives already exist, for example the well-established Sci-Hub, and the more recent Anna’s Archive, which currently claims to hold around 100,000,000 papers. But due to the lack of a clear legal framework for e-lending these public libraries are struggling to fulfil their public service mission. The Coolescence DSpace repository is gone. HindustanTimes reported that no new articles will be retrieved by Sci-Hub.

ZephirAWT · 2024-05-26T09:38:40+00:00

Project Silica is developing the first-ever storage technology designed and built from the ground up for the cloud, using femtosecond lasers to store data.

ZephirAWT · 2024-06-09T08:59:37+00:00

Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave"

Off the back of a strong third quarter, Microsoft is reportedly laying off somewhere between 1,000 and 1,500 workers across its Azure cloud and mixed reality departments. And in a leaked memo as tone-deaf as it is bland, an executive at the company proclaimed that their peons' sacrifices are not in vain, for they are being done on the altar of the almighty "AI wave."

ZephirAWT · 2024-08-08T20:20:37+00:00

Reddit CEO hints that subreddit paywalls are on the way We're at risk of losing so much internet history to paywalls. Truth being said, the history of reddit threads is quite limited by their definition.

ZephirAWT · 2024-12-03T00:20:41+00:00

Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing Digital preservation is not keeping up with the growth of scholarly knowledge. Recognizing its causes is the first step to securing records everywhere for future generations.

ZephirAWT · 2024-12-03T00:27:30+00:00

The Mundaneum, a Proto-Internet Made of Index Cards

Belgian lawyer Paul Otlet and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henri LaFontaine established the project in 1910 with the aim of compiling the entirety of human knowledge on 3-by-5 index cards. The collection was to be the centerpiece of a “world city” designed by Le Corbusier, a nucleus of knowledge that would inspire the world with its libraries, museums, and universities.

ZephirAWT · 2024-12-03T00:30:19+00:00

8 Tools to View Old Versions of Any Website

ZephirAWT · 2024-12-03T00:34:45+00:00

Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win The Internet Archive have upset some powerful people, as recent court cases have shown. But that is just the copyright business lobby - there will be other disgruntled parties who don't bother with the courts (because their activities are already outside the law). Personally, I feel the IA might have over-stepped their original mission. Keeping a low-profile record of past websites, via the Wayback Machine, is a valuable service - but IA's continued expansion risks angering too many people.

Consider donating to the people who are helping to preserve knowledge for the public at no cost: https://archive.org/donate Some alternatives:

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