Brewster Kahle: Universal Access to All Knowledge by Brewster Kahle, La Cantine the 16th of March 2011

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Own objectives

  1. update my EpistemologicalModel
  2. get another point of view than RencontresWikimedia2010

Attended activities

Brewster Kahle: Universal Access to All Knowledge by Brewster Kahle

  • covering what they do
    • digitalization, publication online and offline (showed a printed booklet), ...
    • mention of software (within their grasp between 80 and early 2000 at least)
  • famous for... archiving the web
  • expertise in copyright (and with a non-profit status)
  • personal archive (see OurP.IM:.
  • how big is the web? 20x8x8 feet
    • showed in a SUN Datacenter
  • 2011: 6.000TB (6PB)
  • mention of OpenLibrary.org (cf my own account)
  • rights
    • OpenLibrary.org exemple with lending possibility (!)
  • Q&A
    • lending and copyrights
    • Google n-grams

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Overall remarks and conclusions

  • learn little
  • overall and like FLOSS projects in general, question like "Why don't you do X?" get the answer "Can you do X, so come do it with us!"
  • have to look what epistemological projects leverage archive.org

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Other reviews or coverage

To do

  1. improve Template
  2. http://internetmemory.org
  3. http://twitter.com/#!/internetmemory
  4. share WithoutNotesMay11#OnlineOpenEpistemologyLaboratory