Internet Archive
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Description
From the Internet Archive, the online digital library. The Archive includes a wide assortment of collections, including texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as a rather complete, sporadic archive of the public Web.
Film:
Open source movies (Spanish, [Portuguese])
Links
- Main site: http://www.archive.org
Languages
- English: A tremendous collection of books, art, music, animations, videos, games, and miscellany.
- Spanish: many books, 250 open source videos
- Portuguese: A few hundred books
- Arabic:
- Current list of languages and sizes:
Size
The Archive contains roughly 200,000 audio recordings, 230,000 texts, and 80,000 moving images, as well as many reviews and varieties of formats for each of the items.
Formats
- Many books are currently in plain text, pdf, and djvu. Movies tend to be in MPEG and Quicktime, and occasionally also in ogg theora. Audio tends to be in mp3 and regularly in ogg vorbis.
- Scripting : there is no automated way to take a snapshot of a collection, or download a dump or tarball; individual entries can be downloaded one by one.
Curator Info
Group: Literature, Music, Film
Group coordinator: A. Druin?
Contributing groups and their curators:
Allottable size: 10G on the school libraries
Assessment
Scope (subjects, ages, other)
Completeness (comprehensiveness for given topic and audience)
Multilingualism (specifically es, pt, en, ar)
Not perfect, but reasonable.
Quality (incl. suitability for audience)
Relatively high quality; OCR scans aren't so good.
Freeness (license and format)
Copyright notices vary considerably, and are often vague. There is no clear way to search by copyright. There are collections of open source film; scanned texts are largely public domain.
Comments, Tags, and Ratings
XO : subsets of pdf and image collection; books with audiobooks.
School library : a Children's Library of 2000 works, an open video collection (250 spanish works, a Brick Films collection which need little narration), the audio books collection, the open books collection (again, with good spanish subcollections).
Uses: read straight through; design activities around visual elements -- have people write transcripts of audio or video, make up stories to go with them, draw their own illustrations for audio, match text or audio snippets with images, sounds, or video clips... all great ways to start a class. Have discussions about color, composition, tone, conversation, or audience.
How to Add
Sign into the archive.org site and follow the details there.
