theregister: Inside Internet Archive: 10PB+ of storage in a church… oh, and a little fight to preserve truth

Stopping the powerful changing history, Orwell style

At the Internet Archive’s headquarters in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, technologists, educators, archivists, and others fact-oriented folks gathered to discuss how they and the like-minded can save news from the memory hole – a conceit conjured by George Orwell to describe a political mechanism for altering the truth.

The event, Dodging the Memory Hole 2017, was the fifth such gathering since 2014, sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute and a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It comes at a time when news publishers in the US faces heightened hostility from the Trump administration, not to mention ongoing revenue pressure. …

Siehe https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/16/head_like_a_memory_hole/

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