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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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line-height: 110%;">OPLIN 4Cast #217: News from
the (digital) archives</span><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
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class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1690"
title="digital_archives"
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alt="" height="121" width="81"></a>This
posting collects several recent news items that
all deal with some aspect of archiving digital
material, or digitizing archival material. The
topics range from clever activities on the part of
enterprising individuals to enterprises making
clever use of individual activities. And not all
the news is good.
(As a bonus, you might enjoy this <a
href="http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/21/shipwrecked-2-000-year-old-pills-give-clues-to-ancient-medicine/">interesting
article</a> about digized archives being used to
corroborate an archeological find.) </p>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-02/11/bbc-torrent-archive-websites">Digital
archivist saves 172 BBC websites in a torrent</a>
(Wired.co.uk/Mark Brown) "In a wave of brutal
cuts at the broadcasting corporation, the BBC
recently announced plans to shut down 172
websites in an attempt to scrimp on server fees.
'The material taken offline is stored for future
reference,' said BBC Online managing editor Ian
Hunter, 'or deleted altogether.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/national_library_of_finland_turns_to_crowdsourcing.php">National
Library of Finland turns to crowdsourcing,
games to help digitize its archives</a>
(ReadWriteWeb/Audrey Watters) "...the game helps
verify the OCR and make sure that digitized
materials are accurate and searchable. 'We
wanted to set up "Angry Birds for the Thinking
Person"—something which entertains but is also
useful to us as a nation,' says Ekholm, who
anticipates teachers and children will enjoy
volunteering to help these digitization efforts.
Additional phases of the project will be aimed
at 'more serious historical buffs.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2011/01/25/trouble_for_the_tweet_keepers/">Trouble
for the tweet keepers?</a>: Library of
Congress's ambitious plan to create a Twitter
archive still hasn't taken flight (Boston
Globe/Alex Beam) "I suspect this has devolved
into an unholy technical and legal clusterfunk,
with lawyers piling upon lawyers a la Google
Book Settlement to produce a highly compromised
and entirely unrewarding result."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Internet-Archive-Releases-New-Version-of-The-Wayback-Machine-73492.asp">Internet
Archive releases new version of The Wayback
Machine</a> (Information Today/Gary Price)
"The first thing you’ll notice is that Wayback
now has its own URL. You can access the beta at
<a href="http://www.waybackmachine.org">http://www.waybackmachine.org</a>.
When you arrive at the site you’ll notice that
except for a bit of text below the search box
it's a basic search box and two buttons. That's
it. This is in stark contrast to a massive
amount of text you can see surrounds the
interface (what's now being referred to as the
'classic interface') at <a
href="http://www.archive.org">http://www.archive.org</a>
or <a href="http://web.archive.org">http://web.archive.org</a>.
The two buttons are labeled 'Latest' and 'Show
All.'"</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Web
archive fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">The
Wayback Machine stores more than 150 billion
archived web pages dating back to 1996. </div>
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