[HN Gopher] The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertation...
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The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations from Leiden
University
Author : gpvos
Score : 95 points
Date : 2024-10-09 16:34 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.library.universiteitleiden.nl)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.library.universiteitleiden.nl)
| varenc wrote:
| > "...it decided to deselect these dissertations, so that _3.2
| km_ could be freed up for new acquisitions"
|
| Am I reading this correctly and they have 3.2 kilometers of
| dissertations? What an interesting unit of paper archive size,
| though it makes sense.
| StrangeDoctor wrote:
| I think linear bookshelf distance is a normal unit for talking
| about collections. At least as informative as number of books.
| Guessing 15 meters per bookshelf from photos, 214 bookshelves?
| doesn't sound as cool to me.
| Jtsummers wrote:
| 3.2km of linear storage space makes sense for books. You aren't
| just piling them up in stacks, where volume might be a useful
| measure, and you aren't putting them arbitrarily deep on the
| same row because that prevents access. You'll usually store
| things like this one book deep. If you have a 4-row shelf where
| you could have an 8-row shelf with the same width, each row 1m
| wide, you have 4m vs 8m of linear storage space.
| Ekaros wrote:
| About 3 200 000 cm... That is actually surprisingly large
| number if you assign any number of centimetres for each.
| netrus wrote:
| You are of by a factor of 10.
| bedatadriven wrote:
| You are off by one f.
| MichaelZuo wrote:
| The interesting question is why they aren't expanding their
| archival storage space. What's higher priority for any university
| archives than keeping dissertations?
| eesmith wrote:
| These are dissertations from other universities, where the
| originating university still has a copy.
|
| > The dissertations were originally part of an exchange
| programme between (mostly European) universities until the year
| 2004 but were never catalogued on arrival. ... The universities
| where these dissertations originally were defended informed UBL
| that they still have the dissertations and were not interested
| in receiving back the Leiden copy.
| hyperbrainer wrote:
| Wonder when the day will arrive when universities decide to
| offload all archives to online media only, just keeping the
| most important books and maybe unique manuscripts in
| libraries.
| MichaelZuo wrote:
| Presumably most of the dissertations produced at reputable
| universities would be valuable enough to keep at least 2
| copies in storage.
| sharpshadow wrote:
| There needs to be a global effort to backup the Internet Archive
| at this point.
| esskay wrote:
| Just need to find someone with ~220pb of storage and the
| ability to increase that by approximately 50% annually forever
| more.
| ratedgene wrote:
| I believe there was pressure on IA so that bigger corporate
| players of data hoarding could monopolize access.
| jampekka wrote:
| Tangential: Archive.org is giving alert popup "Have you ever felt
| like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the
| verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just
| happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!"
| consumer451 wrote:
| Wow, I'm seeing that as well.
|
| Earlier today, I was seeing reports on Bluesky that it was down
| for a lot of people.
| stebalien wrote:
| Possible supply-chain "attack" (or demonstration, from what I
| can tell) on wherever they get their polyfill library? It's
| coming from:
|
| https://polyfill.archive.org/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=fet.
| ..
| m3kw9 wrote:
| When IPO?
| fngjdflmdflg wrote:
| I wonder if this is a large enough catalog for IA to fly out to
| the Netherlands to ship these in as they do with entire
| libraries:
|
| >We will be very accepting of materials that you will pack, ship
| and de-dupe, and we are more selective when we have to pay and
| coordinate. But we can do this and we have done so for many many
| collections of items we do not have. For full libraries our Away
| Team will travel to your location to pack and ship.[0]
|
| See also "Preserving the legacy of a library when a college
| closes."[1]
|
| [0] https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-
| donat...
|
| [1] https://blog.archive.org/2019/12/10/preserving-the-legacy-
| of...
| Fraterkes wrote:
| off topic, b
| n3uman wrote:
| https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/04/thank-you-ubuntu-and-lin...
| They openly show a possible vector. "The Internet Archive is
| wholly dependent on Ubuntu and the Linux communities that create
| a reliable, free (as in beer), free (as in speech), rapidly
| evolving operating system. It is hard to overestimate how
| important that is to creating services such as the Internet
| Archive." Maybe CUPS?
| asynchronous wrote:
| I mean that gives nothing away, if someone compromised Ubuntu
| the OS they have a lot more targets than IA here.
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