Category Archives: Technical

Identity in the Decentralized Web

Posted on August 25, 2018 by Jim Nelson

In B. Traven’s The Death Ship, American sailor Gerard Gales finds himself stranded in post-World War I Antwerp after his freighter departs without him.  He’s arrested for the crime of being unable to produce a passport, sailor’s card, or birth … Continue reading →

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Audio / Video player updated – to jwplayer v8.2

Posted on April 11, 2018 by traceypooh

We updated our audio/video (and TV) 3rd party JS-based player from v6.8 to v8.2 today. This was updated with some code to have the same feature set as before, as well as new: much nicer cosmetic/look updates nice “rewind 10 … Continue reading →

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Archive video now supports WebVTT for captions

Posted on March 7, 2018 by traceypooh

We now support .vtt files (Web Video Text Tracks) in addition to .srt (SubRip) (.srt we have supported for years) files for captioning your videos. It’s as simple as uploading a “parallel filename” to your video file(s). Examples: myvid.mp4 myvid.srt myvid.vtt Multi-lang … Continue reading →

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Using Kakadu JPEG2000 Compression to Meet FADGI Standards

Posted on July 31, 2017 by jeff kaplan

The Internet Archive is grateful to the folks at Kakadu Software for contributing to Universal Access to Knowledge by providing the world’s leading implementation of the JPEG2000 standard, used in the Archive’s image processing systems. Here at the Archive, we … Continue reading →

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The Hidden Shifting Lens of Browsers

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Jason Scott

Some time ago, I wrote about the interesting situation we had with emulation and Version 51 of the Chrome browser – that is, our emulations stopped working in a very strange way and many people came to the Archive’s inboxes … Continue reading →

Posted in Emulation, Technical, Wayback Machine - Web Archive | 2 Comments

Those Hilarious Times When Emulations Stop Working

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Jason Scott

Jason Scott, Software Curator and Your Emulation Buddy, writing in. With tens of thousands of items in the archive.org stacks that are in some way running in-browser emulations, we’ve got a pretty strong library of computing history afoot, with many more joining … Continue reading →

Posted in Emulation, Software Archive, Technical | 2 Comments

Distributed Preservation Made Simple

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Jake Johnson

Library partners of the Internet Archive now have at their fingertips an easy way – from a Unix-like command line in a terminal window – to download digital collections for local preservation and access. This post will show how to … Continue reading →

Posted in News, Technical | 6 Comments

archive.org download counts of collections of items updates and fixes

Posted on January 26, 2015 by traceypooh

Every month, we look over the total download counts for all public items at archive.org.  We sum item counts into their collections.  At year end 2014, we found various source reliability issues, as well as overcounting for “top collections” and … Continue reading →

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Using Docker to Encapsulate Complicated Program is Successful

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

The Internet Archive has been using docker in a useful way that is a bit out of the mainstream: to package a command-line binary and its dependencies so we can deploy it on a cluster and use it in the same … Continue reading →

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Job Posting: Web Application/Software Developer for Archive-It

Posted on August 6, 2013 by jeff kaplan

The Internet Archive is looking for a smart, collaborative and resourceful engineer to lead and do the development of the next generation of the Archive-It service, a web based application used by libraries and archives around the world. The Internet … Continue reading →

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