Tag Archives: Internet Archive

RECAPing PACER

Posted on 16 August 2009 by Rick Mason

PACER is the online access portal for “U.S. Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy court records and documents nationwide”.  Because the documents it provides are created by the federal judiciary, they are not copyrightable; because PACER is the only place to obtain … Continue reading →

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Using Our Time Wisely

Posted on 16 January 2009 by Rick Mason

Karen Coyle wrote an excellent post about OCLC’s delayed implementation of the records licensing policy.  An exerpt: Those of us who promote open access must use this time wisely. First, we need to get some solid legal advice. It’s clear … Continue reading →

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Death of a Digitization Project

Posted on 23 May 2008 by Rick Mason

Microsoft announced today that they are shutting down their book digitization project. They also announced that the Live Search Books site will be shut down sometimes next week. This is a disappointment in that I was hoping that the competition … Continue reading →

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Book Scanning at the Internet Archive

Posted on 23 March 2008 by Rick Mason

Wired.com has a great set of photographs detailing the process that goes into scanning books for the Internet Archive’s text  project. The process isn’t what I envisioned… I expected something that would look like it came from the radiology department … Continue reading →

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Zotero Commons

Posted on 14 December 2007 by Rick Mason

Kind of an interesting application of the Zotero add-on for Firefox : the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (no relation 😉 ) and the Internet Archive are working to create a storage for scholarly annotation … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive exempt from DMCA

Posted on 2 December 2006 by Rick Mason

According to a press release, the Internet Archive has been granted an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), allowing it to continue archiving web sites, software and such. Hopefully this is the movement towards more reasonable copyright applications … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive times 3

Posted on 27 November 2006 by Rick Mason

All right then, begin the list: 1) An article spotted in this morning’s paper that offers a great summary for those not familiar with the archive: Content of Dead Sites Lives in Archive . 2) They earned a 2006 Education … Continue reading →

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Libre Map Project is Liberated!

Posted on 5 September 2006 by Rick Mason

The Libre Map Project had a goal of raising $1600 to fund their project.  Once that goal was met, they would open their collection of maps to the world. They met their goal… in less than 24 hours.  Now the … Continue reading →

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