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The Stichting Internet Archive, a Dutch non-profit research library, is building collections and tools to bring them to life. Working with libraries, museums, and archives, we share these tools and collections to further everyone’s services.
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The Stichting Internet Archive congratulates the Swedish National Library on their work to improve Speech-to-Text using AI with their model KB-Whisper. Bravo! www.stichtinginternetarchive.nl/whispering-i...

KB-Whisper exemplifies AI’s potential to serve the public good. Bravo to the Swedish National Library! 👏

Call for Proposals for GovInfo Day(s) Spring (April 24 (online) and April 25 (in-person, Vancouver). Our theme this year is long-term and persistent access to government information. Please visit forms.gle/4MLm2ZzerDAJ... to submit your proposal. We will be accepting proposals until March 14.

Digital Libraries can help! There is always more work to do, but there are options.

Today is "I love Free Software Day". We are super grateful for the Heritrix software, the open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project by @archive.org ❤️ #ilovefs ❤️ heritrix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Today is "I love Free Software Day". Thank you to the @commoncrawl.bsky.social Foundation for all their hard work. Onwards! @pjox.bsky.social - So great to meet in person.

Today is "I love Free Software Day". Thank you to the Free Software Foundation Europe for all their hard work to support and share the love of Free Software. Onwards!

NEW: As world leaders gather for the Paris AI Summit, I hope we're reaching a turning point, towards a "new politics of AI". Politicians should not just accelerate AI, but they also need to actively steer it towards social good. (1/8)

Our digital librarian Brewster introduced the Stichting Internet Archive to partners and colleagues at a beautiful cafe in downtown Amsterdam where we hosted our first Dutch "borrel". We are looking forward to great collaborations in 2025 and beyond.

It feels like forever ago, but only last weekend we were at @fosdem.bsky.social and had a great hallway discussion with the Software Heritage Foundation. We look forward to collaborating even more. Thank you for all your amazing work preserving Software.

We like the term "Public Intelligence". Using the world's cultural heritage to bringing research collections to life. This is just one small part of the dialogue. Both @glichfield.bsky.social & @b-cavello.bsky.social make good points. Worth the read w/ a cup of coffee to keep the neurons sparking.

We are grateful for the work by the Free Software Foundation Europe. @fsfe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Thank you for your commitment to Software Freedom and openness. It was great to meet up at @fosdem.bsky.social this past weekend. Folks, please consider making a donation to their great cause. 🙌

Dr Lisa Käde gave a good overview of the Text and Data Mining exemptions made in Articles 3-4 of the Directive EU-DSM. Thank you for sharing your expertise. @fosdem.bsky.social

Good morning Brussels. Looking forward to thought provoking talks and roundtables, interesting conversations, and good connections at @fosdem.bsky.social this weekend.