[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4Cast #217: News from the (digital) archives

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OPLIN 4Cast #217: News from the (digital) archives
February 16th, 2011

<http://www.oplin.org/4cast/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/digital_archives.png>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 
interesting article 
<http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/21/shipwrecked-2-000-year-old-pills-give-clues-to-ancient-medicine/> 
about digized archives being used to corroborate an 
archeological find.)

    * Digital archivist saves 172 BBC websites in a torrent
      <http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-02/11/bbc-torrent-archive-websites>
      (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.'"
    * National Library of Finland turns to crowdsourcing,
      games to help digitize its archives
      <http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/national_library_of_finland_turns_to_crowdsourcing.php>
      (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.'"
    * Trouble for the tweet keepers?
      <http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2011/01/25/trouble_for_the_tweet_keepers/>:
      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."
    * Internet Archive releases new version of The Wayback
      Machine
      <http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Internet-Archive-Releases-New-Version-of-The-Wayback-Machine-73492.asp>
      (Information Today/Gary Price) "The first thing you'll
      notice is that Wayback now has its own URL. You can
      access the beta at http://www.waybackmachine.org. 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 http://www.archive.org
      or http://web.archive.org. The two buttons are labeled
      'Latest' and 'Show All.'"

*/Web archive fact:/*

The Wayback Machine stores more than 150 billion archived 
web pages dating back to 1996.
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