GLAMTLV2018/Submissions/Internet Archive: Universal Access to all Knowledge
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- Submission no. 42
- Title of the submission
- Internet Archive: Universal Access to all Knowledge
- Author(s) of the submission
- Mark Graham
- E-mail address
- Country of origin
- United States
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
- Internet Archive
- Type of session
- Talk
- Length of session
- Ideal number of attendees
- Abstract
Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, will give an update and overview of the Internet Archive’s progress toward the audacious goal of Universal Access to all Knowledge. He will discuss the organization's efforts to backup much of the public web (about 1.5 billion URLs/week, including all external resources linked via URLs from articles from hundreds of Wikipedia language editions.) He will also describe work related to digitizing books, TV News, academic papers, various media of music and other resources. Special attention will be paid to how this work interfaces with, and is of benefit to, Wikimedia sites and will explore opportunities for ongoing and expanded collaboration and support.
In all cases Mr. Graham, and the Internet Archive, works to build on and support the work of others and actively seeks ideas and projects from, and with, individuals and organizations that will help advance the open culture and help make the web more useful and reliable.
- What will attendees take away from this session?
- An understanding of how the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine work to crawl and preserve content on the web
- An insight into how GLAM institutions work with the Internet Archive today for scanning and metadata services
- A description of how Wikimedia projects benefit from Internet Archive integration for dead link resolution
- An opportunity to propose new projects and collaborations with the largest archival project in the world
- Slides or further information
- Bio - Mark Graham. As Director of the Wayback Machine he is responsible for capturing, preserving and helping people discover and use, more than 1 billion new web captures each week. Mark was most recently Senior Vice President with NBC News where he managed several business units including GardenWeb and Stringwire, a live, mobile, video platform for collaborative citizen reporting. Mark was Senior Vice President of Technology with iVillage, an early Internet company that focused on women and community. He co-founded Rojo Networks, one of the first large-scale feed aggregators and personalized blog readers (sold to sixapart.)
In the early days of the net he managed technology and business development at The WELL and lead their effort to build the first web-based interface for online forums, and also helped bring the pre-web Internet to millions of people by running AOL's Gopher project as part of their Internet Center. He managed technology for the pioneering US-Soviet Sovam Teleport email service and co-founded and managed PeaceNet, one of the first online communities for progressive social change, and later IGC.org, one of the world first ISPs. He also co-founded the global NGO, APC.org. Mark's early training and experience with computer-mediated communications was acquired while he served in the US Air Force, spending more than 3 years working at the Air Force Data Services Center at the Pentagon. Mark's nonprofit work includes volunteering with the open education library http://oercommons.org and as a board member of http://openrecoverysf.org.
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