A documentary movie of the Internet archive aiming for "world of knowledge" that can access all information

Save past websites as much as possibleWayback Machine"And stores books and TV programs and music around the world as digital data"Internet Archive". The Internet Archive documentary movie is released.

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Brewster Kale, the representative of Internet Archive and a librarian.


I will start talking about Wayback Machine. Wayback Machine collects web pages of the world automatically every two weeks automatically by computer.


It seems that 500,000 people are using Wayback Machine, which stores websites in their old state and can be read by anyone, now.


This is an Internet Archive building built three years ago.




Image of Christian church.


You wanted to place a library (server) on a flat floor.


This is the server.


Server'sHard disk capacity reached 10 petabytesKale who is pleased to sometimes have a party.


Regarding the server, securing capacity and changing format are problems, but it seems that it is not so serious.


The truly important thing is to prepare a copy (mirror) of data. History shows that inconvenient records will be erased. "Even if data is arbitrarily destroyed, by making the mirror elsewhere, we can keep the record for the centuries for the next generation," Kale said.


Kale explains the server room. I am paying attention to ventilation to counter heat, and it seems to open windows and doors on hot days.


This huge warehouse ......


A library for books gathered from all over the world and kept.


All books are digitally scanned so that next generation people can view it.


I will scan silently with a dedicated scanner.





Robert Miller who is responsible for the library. Currently, 3 million books are kept and it seems that temperature and humidity are strictly managed.


The books are stored in approximately 4000 volumes in a gray box.


The immediate goal is to collect and store 10 million volumes. The number of 10 million books is the same as the number of storage at Princeton University, Yale University and Boston Public Library.


Old books of British were kept in the box which opens the door in the end.


"The goal is to ensure that every book in any age can be viewed anywhere in the world, so that a poor boy in Kenya can access it at any time," Kale said.


This is Alexis · Rossi librarian. We say that accessing all information is feasible by our attempt.


Scan and digitize every book.


Record 200 channels of TV programs worldwide every day 24 hours.


Cover all the news.



There is also know-how to extract music from the record, save the movie from the DVD and save it.


"We now have sufficient funds, we can collect and store information correctly," says Rossi.


Clouds are managed by companies and can not be trusted. It is also evident from the fact that Yahoo! and Google's movies are deleted by someone else.


If the data is deleted etc., it will not exist for that generation. In this movie, we refer to this as "digital generation is easy to forget".


"Keeping it accessible, that is," Mine Share "is the best way to keep information in the next generation, so what we do is always open source," Kale said.


A 10 petabyte library is just a passing point.


"Where does the problem go, making libraries so that you can access all the knowledge from all over the world, that is exactly what you are doing and it is a great experiment."


"Knowledge world" that anyone can access any knowledge, information anytime anywhere. The world that Internet Archive is aiming for is spectacularly magnificent, but it is also the world that we certainly want to realize.