![Tangible Book Preservation Initiative by The Internet Archive
‘The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library with the Wikipedian mission of “universal access to all knowledge,” has offered free storage and access to digitized music, movies, websites and nearly three million public domain books since 1996. In May, the Archive turned its focus offline, towards the preservation of physical reading materials. The aptly-named Physical Archive to the Internet Archive, a prototype facility devoted to the long-term preservation of physical records, launched last Sunday in Richmond, California. [… F]ounder Brewster Kahle compares the Physical Archive to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as “an authoritative and safe version of crops we are growing.”’
- As a response to the fact that more and more libraries are “deaccessionizing” or even disposing of tangible books following their conversion to 2-dimensional forms, this wonderful project emerges to preserve the original after the item is digitized. I particularly enjoy the above analogy to a seed bank - beautiful and appropriate.
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Tangible Book Preservation Initiative by The Internet Archive
‘The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library with the Wikipedian mission of “universal access to all knowledge,” has offered free storage and access to digitized music, movies, websites and nearly three million public domain books since 1996. In May, the Archive turned its focus offline, towards the preservation of physical reading materials. The aptly-named Physical Archive to the Internet Archive, a prototype facility devoted to the long-term preservation of physical records, launched last Sunday in Richmond, California. [… F]ounder Brewster Kahle compares the Physical Archive to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as “an authoritative and safe version of crops we are growing.”’
- As a response to the fact that more and more libraries are “deaccessionizing” or even disposing of tangible books following their conversion to 2-dimensional forms, this wonderful project emerges to preserve the original after the item is digitized. I particularly enjoy the above analogy to a seed bank - beautiful and appropriate.
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