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This October, we are publishing The Vanishing Culture Report, a new open access report examining the power and importance of preservation in our digital age.  As more content is created

https://blog.archive.org/2024/08/08/coming-this-october-the-vanishing-culture-report/

Hundreds of people from all over the world gathered together on January 25 to honor the thousands of movies, plays, books, poems and songs that recently entered the U.S. public

https://blog.archive.org/2024/01/26/public-domain-day-celebrates-creative-works-from-1928/

After sifting through a sea of talent and creativity, we are thrilled to present the cinematic achievements of three winners and two honorable mentions in our Public Domain Day 2024

https://blog.archive.org/2024/01/26/lights-camera-victory-public-domain-day-2024-remix-contest-winners-revealed/

This year we are welcoming many works from 1928 into the U.S. public domain (books, movies, images, etc.), as well as recorded sound from 1923. Some of the big events

https://blog.archive.org/2024/01/04/the-worlds-most-famous-mouse-joins-the-public-domain/

Whether you are a teacher, filmmaker, journalist, scientist or historian, having access to recordings about the tobacco, drug and other industries can be invaluable. For more than fifteen years, ...

https://blog.archive.org/2023/06/05/unveiling-the-hidden-truth-ucsf-industry-documents-library-empowers-research-into-tobacco-drug-and-related-industries/

In celebration of National Library Week, we’d like to introduce you to some of the professional librarians who work at the Internet Archive and in projects closely associated with our

https://blog.archive.org/2022/04/04/meet-the-librarians-of-the-internet-archive/

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

https://blog.archive.org/2018/04/11/audio-video-player-updated-to-jwplayer-v8-2/

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

https://blog.archive.org/2018/03/07/archive-video-now-supports-webvtt-for-captions/

Jason Scott, free-range archivist, reporting in as 2017 draws to a close. As part of our end-of-year fundraising drive, I thought it might be fun to tweet highlighted parts of

https://blog.archive.org/2017/12/30/30-days-of-stuff/

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

https://blog.archive.org/2015/01/26/archive-org-download-counts-of-collections-of-items-updates-and-fixes/