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Re:I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know w... by pessimizer on Thursday September 26, 2024 @07:07PM (#41664522)
> Seems like a male thing, normally it's blokes who create these archives.

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

> Stokes bequeathed her son Michael Metelits the entire tape collection, with no instructions other than to donate it to a charity of his choice. After considering potential recipients, Metelits gave the collection to the Internet Archive one year after Stokes's death. Four shipping containers were required to move the collection to Internet Archive's headquarters in San Francisco, a move that cost her estate $16,000. It was the largest collection they had ever received. The group agreed to digitize the volumes, a process expected to run fully on round-the-clock volunteers, costing $2 million and taking 20 digitizing machines several years to complete. As of April 2019, the project is still active.

Re:I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know w... by lazyasciiart on Thursday September 26, 2024 @11:55PM (#41666107)
Surely someone in this thread can give an update on the status of that digitization project?
Re:I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know w... by exitb on Friday September 27, 2024 @12:51AM (#41666371)
The outwardly visible status is that just a small portion of the recordings have been made available[1]. The Archive is not commenting about this for years now.

[1] https://archive.org/details/stokestvarchiveexperiment

Re:I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know w... by nicolas_t on Friday September 27, 2024 @02:32AM (#41666991)
That’s rather disappointing. Expected more from the internet archive.
Re:I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know w... by MonkeyClub on Friday September 27, 2024 @07:57AM (#41669325)
Expectations are free, actual work costs time and money though.
Re:I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know w... by exitb on Friday September 27, 2024 @10:03AM (#41670628)
I've donated to archival efforts before and, as many, would be happy to chip in for this one. It doesn't seem possible though and we don't know why it appears stalled.
Re:I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know w... by nicolas_t on Sunday September 29, 2024 @10:10AM (#41687535)
I mean I have donated $250 every year for the past 7 years so it's not like I don't put my money where my mouth is
Re:I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know w... by lobsterthief on Friday September 27, 2024 @10:12AM (#41670733)
Please donate to them if you want them to meet your expectations
Re:I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know w... by ForHackernews on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:49PM (#41673565)
So it can go to settle their court fines? Or fund their next harebrained legal adventure?
Re:I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know w... by poincaredisk on Saturday September 28, 2024 @05:51AM (#41679166)
Yes, so they can continue doing their mission, including digitalizing archives and fighting legal battles.
Re:I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know w... by nicolas_t on Sunday September 29, 2024 @10:11AM (#41687542)
I already do, I have donated $1750 so far. I have no way to see why this project is stalled or to specify where my donations go to (which makes sense, having donators specifying which subproject is likely to be a nightmare to manage)