By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation’s history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding its already outsize role in preserving the digital world for posterity.

deleting post because I now see the other post on this community

  • XeroxCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    Edit: misread OP saying it was in this community combined with the other comment linking to c/datahoarder

    Why delete it? I’m not going to follow every niche community I’ve never heard of before, so I wouldn’t know about this otherwise. That other post has minimal interaction - 3 comments I can’t see, probably some defederation thing. It’s not a repost if it’s in a different community

    Anyway, the article is interesting. To make it a one liner to explain what this means, Aruba needed a strategy to scan and catalogue all it’s written documents and works. Internet Archive had the software to organize all that, especially across multiple countries