In addition to financial donations, I would encourage people who are familiar with particular areas of the Archive to share the interesting resources they have found through their own bibliographies, playlists, indexes, etc. The Archive’s resources all have permanent URLs, so lists hosted on other sites will not suffer from link rot.
I’ve created two such lists myself, one of books by British and American visitors to Japan in the 19th and early 20th centuries [1] and the other of forgotten novels of the 19th century [2]. I’m now thinking of compiling a list of direct links to writings from the 18th and 19th century about slavery in the United States.
I would love to be able to listen to other people’s playlists of songs from the 78rpm and LP record collection on the Archive.
[1] http://gally.net/jatsi/about/sources.html
[2] https://blog.archive.org/2021/07/14/forgotten-novels-of-the-...
Re:Donate to the Internet Archive
by homedepotdave on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:54AM
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+1 for improved search functionality. Was just looking for information today and would have killed for this
On one hand it they’re probably going into archiving more stuff, but I wish they invested some resources into polishing up the UI. Besides not being great to look at, the snapshot selection calendar thing everyone has to go through is a joke.
Also, not sure if it’s just me, but I’m proud of donating to them and would be happy about some ways of showing it. I’d probably buy merch.
Besides a small to medium UI overhaul I’d like to see some improvements in search, listings and perhaps curation. There are some amazing things in the archive, but I find them to be not that easy to discover. Some more explorability might mean more enthusiasm.