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As far as I'm concerned the IA can stick this up their arse. They REFUSE to acknowlege my request to have a personal website that they've managed to archive removed. It's a person blog that I want online so I can give the URL to family and friends, but I keep it out of Google etc with robots.txt. But once during an upgrade of the backend software I stuffed up the robots.txt and they crawled it until I fixed it up. Wi…
Probably totally digress, but I wish IA can organize their digital library slightly better. One day I was checking some manga books by ISBN on IA just out of curiosity. And for some reason, it put the ISBNs for all the volumes of a manga into one single entry ( https://archive.org/details/isbn_1919979003907 , check "ISBN" metadata section) and unsurprisingly, the actual content is only one volume, vol.43 (not even vo…
I suggest that you check their RSS feeds to see how staggeringly high the rate of uploads is. That uploading is "frenetic" (in a good way of course) reveals where the focus is. For re-assessing and fixing the records a parallel team would probably be needed.
I would gladly help towards that: I never checked but maybe one can volunteer.
Internet Archive has begun gathering content for the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC), which will be a massive online library of materials and collections related to amateur radio and early digital communications. The DLARC project is looking for contributors with troves of ham radio, amateur radio, and early digital communications related books, magazines, documents, catalogs, manuals, vid…
> software Amatuer radio seems full of little software tools to do calculations that are closed source. I hope the authors can be encouraged to publish source, or it will die with them.
As far as I'm concerned the IA can stick this up their arse. They REFUSE to acknowlege my request to have a personal website that they've managed to archive removed. It's a person blog that I want online so I can give the URL to family and friends, but I keep it out of Google etc with robots.txt. But once during an upgrade of the backend software I stuffed up the robots.txt and they crawled it until I fixed it up. Wi…
I have hints that they may be understaffed. If you had a little spare time, you could lend a hand to their legendary effort, and maybe contribute in fixing a few things such as your issue.
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Are you involved with IA? I'm actually really interested in what your day to day looks like, could you share more?
textfiles is Jason Scott[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Scott
Woukd be a cool time capsule.
The IA has really lost its reputation as an archive by choosing to remove content down for political purposes. They see themselves as publishers rather than an archive.
What did they remove?
If you know the right people with the right political views, even the IA will capitulate.
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YES. -Kay
I don’t know how common it is for hams to collect these but my father has thousands, so I’ll try to get him to send what he has your way
Before internet the physical cards ware the proof that you had had that contact. They ware needed for awards in in many countries to even advance from your license class upwards.
In Finland one had to have 300 confirmed (paper QSL card received) contacts with morse code before you could even attempt the tests for higher license classes that allowed voice and data. Thankfully now abolished, along with the mandatory morse code requirement.
Internet Archive has begun gathering content for the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC), which will be a massive online library of materials and collections related to amateur radio and early digital communications. The DLARC project is looking for contributors with troves of ham radio, amateur radio, and early digital communications related books, magazines, documents, catalogs, manuals, vid…
> software Amatuer radio seems full of little software tools to do calculations that are closed source. I hope the authors can be encouraged to publish source, or it will die with them.