For nearly three decades, kahle has led the effort to build a library of the internet — a monumental task rooted in the same democratic values as the libraries of centuries past In the interview, he explains the existential legal challenges the internet archive faces today and why its mission is more critical than ever. Interview by joel khalili of brewster kahle of the internet archive for tech radar pro.and it was the basis of his article:the story of the fight to archive. What the internet archive lost to kahle, the suits have been an immense setback to ia’s mission Kahle spoke in austin at the university of texas’s harry ransom center — a museum, library, and archive — where he looked to both the new possibilities and the challenges ahead for his internet archive, and for the longevity of of digital data itself. 1 that he may be considered for the post is a testament to kahle’s commitment to mass digitization, the cornerstone of modern librarianship
A visionary of the digital preservation of knowledge and an outspoken advocate of the open.
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