Internet Archive, The: Saving a Copy of the World Wide Web

Synopsis

The Internet Archive project has set out to click on every online link on the internet and then saves a copy of what it finds. Since 1996, a representative portion of all of the pages on the internet have saved, catalogued and archived. Now celebrating its 10th petabyte (10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) of stored information, the Internet Archive’s digital librarian Brewster Kahle gives the viewer a tour around the archive’s physical location; a huge deconsecrated church in San Francisco, USA.

The archive also aims to keep a physical copy of every book ever published alongside a digital counterpart, which means turning every page of every book by hand in order to scan it. Kahle’s overriding philosophy is that the best way to preserve things is to make them accessible and the archive hopes to remain as open as possible. [13 minutes]

Language

English

Country

United States

Year of release

2013

Subjects

Information technology; Librarianship

Keywords

digital storage media; Internet; libraries; World Wide Web; digitisation projects

Online availability

URI

http://richannel.org/the-internet-archive

Price

free

Delivery

Streamed

Credits

Contributor

Brewster Kahle

Production Company

Name

Deepsand Media

Distributor

Name

Ri Channel

Web

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