Universal access to all knowledge | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 18/01/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive


00:02:50 1 History
00:07:03 2 Web archiving
00:07:13 2.1 Wayback Machine
00:10:21 2.2 Archive-It
00:12:24 3 Book collections
00:12:34 3.1 Text collection
00:15:45 3.2 Number of texts for each language
00:15:56 3.3 Number of texts for each decade
00:16:06 3.4 Open Library
00:17:12 3.5 List of digitizing sponsors for ebooks
00:17:59 4 Media collections
00:18:51 4.1 Audio collection
00:20:38 4.2 Brooklyn Museum
00:20:54 4.3 Images collection
00:21:22 4.3.1 Cover Art Archive
00:21:47 4.3.2 Metropolitan Museum of Art images
00:22:08 4.3.3 NASA Images
00:22:50 4.3.4 Occupy Wall Street Flickr archive
00:23:14 4.3.5 USGS Maps
00:23:31 4.4 Machinima archive
00:24:30 4.5 Mathematics – Hamid Naderi Yeganeh
00:24:50 4.6 Microfilm collection
00:25:21 4.7 Moving image collection
00:27:38 4.8 spanNetlabels
00:28:04 4.9 Open Educational Resources
00:28:41 4.10 TV News Search &amp; Borrow
00:30:01 5 Other services and endeavors
00:30:12 5.1 Physical media
00:30:46 5.2 Software
00:32:36 5.3 Table Top Scribe System
00:32:54 6 Controversies and legal disputes
00:33:05 6.1 Grateful Dead
00:34:24 6.2 National security letters
00:34:59 6.3 Uncensored hosting and terrorism
00:35:43 6.4 iOmni/i magazine
00:37:04 6.5 Opposition to SOPA and PIPA bills
00:37:48 6.6 Opposition to Google Books settlement
00:38:13 6.7 iNintendo Power/i magazine
00:39:17 6.8 Government of India
00:39:45 6.9 Turkey
00:40:08 7 Ceramic archivists collection
00:40:39 8 See also



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SUMMARY
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The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books. As of  October 2016, its collection topped 15 petabytes. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating for a free and open Internet.
The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains more than 308 billion web captures. The Archive also oversees one of the world's largest book digitization projects.
Founded by Brewster Kahle in May 1996, the Archive is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating in the United States. It has an annual budget of $10 million, derived from a variety of sources: revenue from its Web crawling services, various partnerships, grants, donations, and the Kahle-Austin Foundation.Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California. Most of its staff work in its book-scanning centers. The Archive has data centers in three Californian cities: San Francisco, Redwood City, and Richmond. To prevent losing the data in case of e.g. a natural disaster, the Archive attempts to create copies of (parts of) the collection at more distant locations, currently including the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt and a facility in Amsterdam. The Archive is a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium and was officially designated as a library by the state of California in 2007.The Internet Archive visual arts residency, which is organized by Amir Saber Esfahani and Andrew McClintock, is designed to connect artists with the archive’s 40 petabytes of digitized materials. Over the course of the yearlong residency, visual artists create a body of work which culminates in an exhibition. The hope is to connect digital history with the arts and create something for future generations to appreciate online or off. Previous artists in residence in ...