Internet Archive, after Trump win, looks to create alternate site in Canada. The Archive is home to more than 15 petabytes of historical electronic data from the Web and other sources
From ComputerWorld
Fearing that decades of digital data could be threatened by a Donald Trump presidency, the nonprofit Internet Archive today proposed a secondary electronic library in Canada to safeguard its historical information.Read the rest of the article here: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3144757/internet/internet-archive-after-trump-win-looks-to-create-alternate-site-in-canada.html"This year, we have set a new goal: to create a copy of Internet Archive’s digital collections in another country. We are building the Internet Archive of Canada because, to quote our friends at LOCKSS, 'lots of copies keep stuff safe,'" Internet Archive Founder Brewster Kahle said in a blog today. LOCKSS is an open-source, peer-to-peer network that allows libraries to collect and share Web-based data.
As an organization, the Internet Archive has been a proponent of a free and open Internet, which it believes may be in jeopardy.
Kahle said an Internet Archive of Canada would help keep its cultural materials safe, private and perpetually accessible.
"It means preparing for a Web that may face greater restrictions. It means serving patrons in a world in which government surveillance is not going away; indeed it looks like it will increase," Kahle wrote. "Throughout history, libraries have fought against terrible violations of privacy—where people have been rounded up simply for what they read. At the Internet Archive, we are fighting to protect our readers' privacy in the digital world."
The Internet Archive, which also houses the Wayback Machine web-page repository, is home to more than 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) of online data. It is asking the public for donations to build the Internet Archive of Canada, which it said will cost millions of dollars.
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This sounds like the perfect use for VIVA's content addressable network. We should give Internet Archive a crown and let them use it for backup.
BTW for some reason the article reminded me of this...
It looks a lot like political propaganda but anyway, they should create an alternate site in every country in the world. It is one of my favorite place to discover old(new) books and interesting material in general.
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