[Ggcs-presentations] Presentation to Golden Gate Computer Society

[bcbloch at juno.com]

Some of the New Yorker discussion group went to the Internet Archive's  Funston Avenue location for a tour and came back raving about it. I gather that it is trying to digitalize virtually everything on the web and in print, but am not certain about that. The organization, a non profit, that describes itself on its web page thus:Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.   Wikipedia describes it as follows:The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge".[4][5] It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including web sites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books. As of October 2016, its collection topped 15 petabytes.[6] 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 over 150 billion web captures.[7][8] 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.[9] Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, where about 30 of its 200 employees work[citation needed]. 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[10] in Egypt and a facility in Amsterdam.[11] The Archive is a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium[12] and was officially designated as a library by the State of California in 2007.[13 

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Barbara Hansen <bearba2 at yahoo.com>
To: "bcbloch at juno.com" <bcbloch at juno.com>
Subject: Re: Presentation to Golden Gate Computer Society
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 17:50:18 +0000 (UTC)


Dear Babette, CAn you explain what this group is about for our GM?k It is the only email I found from you. Barbara H

From: "bcbloch at juno.com" <bcbloch at juno.com>
 To: info at archive.org 
 Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 12:04 PM
 Subject: Presentation to Golden Gate Computer Society
 
I am a member of the Presentations Committee of the Golden Gate Computer Society ( www.ggcs.org   also see our MeetUp pages)) We are a non-profit, all volunteer User Group serving the San Francisco Bay Area (from Marin) for over 30 years, with 200 members and a large number of non member followers. In addition to our Special Interest Groups and classes, we hold a monthly General Meeting on the evening of the Fourth Monday, which is open to the public. We would be most interested in talking to you about a presentation describing the Internet Archive, it collections, services, mission and activities. I would appreciate it if you would direct me to the person who could explore this invitation with me. Babette BlochGGCS Steering and Presentations Committees, Reviews Coordinator415-388-3864  

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