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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by stateofinquiry on Sunday August 04, 2024 @12:26PM (#41154542)
Its surprising that archive.org is the only such outfit I have encountered. Just like we have had libraries since ancient times, why are there so few digital libraries? There must be others, but nowhere near the number (or awareness) that we should have.

Heck, existing paper-based libraries should probably each include a digital archiving department.

Maybe this is already happening or already exists, and is trivial to those studying library science or something. I can hope, anyway.

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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by walterbell on Sunday August 04, 2024 @12:47PM (#41154722)
Excellent question.

Local neighborhood libraries could have their own curated digital archive, as cache for fast local search, and archival backup for long-term resilience.

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Re:To preserve their work journalists take archiving into th... by Intralexical on Sunday August 04, 2024 @10:29PM (#41157682)
There are lots of web archiving projects out there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Web_archiving_initiati...

But the web is large. And public sector or academic librarian teams tend to be small. The IA's the one that people have coalesced around.

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