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>Happy holiday season and a brilliant new year.
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>We have a new website. Please check it out at www.archive.org (same URL) and
>give us your feedback, recommendations (for example for more related links,
>additional features, etc). But, please be gentle on the press section as it
>still needs updating; we were just eager to launch.
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>We have had a busy few weeks: new technical staff - welcome Kurt Bollacker,
>Technical Director and Joseph Kacmarcik, Systems Administrator - preparing
>for an image crawl, putting new users online (go to
>http://www.archive.org/content/submit.html to get access to the collections)
>and beginning to migrate our tape collection to disc.
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>We are looking for programmers/computer scientists so please send any
>suggestions our way. The Presidio of San Francisco is a great place to be
>everyday and the work is a major challenge for those who like challenges and
>imaginative leaps. Go to http://www.archive.org/content/employment.html for
>details. We need lots of you.
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>Jim Gray of Microsoft Research had sent on some worthwhile articles to check
>out.
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>1. A recent ruling regarding copyright and images on the Internet
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/347753.asp
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>Here are the key parts of the article
>"(The photographer's) images were swept up along with two million others
>available on the Internet, as part of (Ditto's) efforts to provide its users
>with a better way to find images on the Internet," wrote the judge.
>"(Ditto's) purposes were and are inherently transformative, even if its
>realization of those purposes was at times imperfect. Where, as here, a new
>use and new technology are evolving, the broad transformative purpose of the
>use weighs more heavily than the inevitable flaws in its early stages of
>development."
>The judge also said that thumbnails themselves - though an exact replica of
>the original photos - had to be considered different from the originals
>because they served an entirely different purpose.
>"The character of the thumbnail index is not esthetic, but functional; it's
>purpose is not to be artistic, but to be comprehensive," the judge wrote.
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>2. The Library of Congress Audio and Visual Initiative
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>http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic/avprot/avprhome.html
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>The Library of Congress audio-visual prototyping project is developing
>a small-scale digital repository for audio and video in
>1999-2001.
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>3. Presidential recommendations for a digital library, and other digital
>collections
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> http://www.ecommerce.gov
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>President Clinton released two presidential directives on (1) electronic
>government; and (2) e-society national digital library, digital earth
>(geospatial info online) top 500 agency forms online, online acquisition of
>government products,
>government issues 100,000 digital certitificats, and NSF to study online
>voting.
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>Vice President Gore unveiled the 2 directives and a
>report on e-commerce at an event in New Hampshire.
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>These memos are both designed to encourage agencies
>to work with the private sector and non-profits on applications
>such as:
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>- delivery of government services
>- telemedicine
>- distance learning
>- electronic voting
>- crisis management
>- digital libraries
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>The e-society memo includes a specific reference to PITAC's
>recommendations
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>We are looking forward to a productive new year and welcome your
>participation.
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>Marlita Kahn
>Managing Director, Internet Archive
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