1. The banner happens last month of the year (Wikipedia being the perfect analog). Yes, there are mixed feelings and it's not the world's best experience :P
3. https://github.com/mouse-reeve/bookwyrm Mouse who used to work @ Internet Archive has a decentralized version of Open Library (Bookwyrm) and it's worth checking out.
4. For the last 5 or so years the Internet Archive has been cultivating a dweb/dapp community and integrating with IIIF, Dat, IPFS, gun, bittorent, webtorrents, and others and hosting regular summits and meetups
https://blog.archive.org/2018/07/21/decentralized-web-faq/
5. The wayback machine is an interesting case study: it turns out, incentive structures (even things like FIL/filecoin) haven't been able to perfectly crack the nut on getting folks interested enough to preserve the whole wayback machine. There's petabytes of material and there's a powerlaw about what people care about today. Internet Archive realized what we care about today may not be the same as tomorrow, and so there's a cost eaten (the incentive comes from economies of scale generated by intrinsic desire rather than $). And in a way, this centralized solution (economies of scale) IS the solution a community came up with. It has flaws and advantages (tradeoffs), such as centralized points of failure, and I think the archive would be (and has been) ecstatic to explore improving these opportunities.
Sounds nightmarish. IPFS would work if the project took aim at becoming the default filesystem for linux. There's no storage issue if every new server, terminal and handset was an ipfs node by default and local storage volumes and proprietary cloud storage platforms were the fragile fringe use filesystems. Perhaps the Open Library and the Wayback Machine only work in a more open internet than we have today.
Great points here
1. The banner happens last month of the year (Wikipedia being the perfect analog). Yes, there are mixed feelings and it's not the world's best experience :P
2. Our entire data set is available to download as in bulk https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps because we'd love to see a decentralized p2p version
3. https://github.com/mouse-reeve/bookwyrm Mouse who used to work @ Internet Archive has a decentralized version of Open Library (Bookwyrm) and it's worth checking out.
4. For the last 5 or so years the Internet Archive has been cultivating a dweb/dapp community and integrating with IIIF, Dat, IPFS, gun, bittorent, webtorrents, and others and hosting regular summits and meetups https://blog.archive.org/2018/07/21/decentralized-web-faq/
5. The wayback machine is an interesting case study: it turns out, incentive structures (even things like FIL/filecoin) haven't been able to perfectly crack the nut on getting folks interested enough to preserve the whole wayback machine. There's petabytes of material and there's a powerlaw about what people care about today. Internet Archive realized what we care about today may not be the same as tomorrow, and so there's a cost eaten (the incentive comes from economies of scale generated by intrinsic desire rather than $). And in a way, this centralized solution (economies of scale) IS the solution a community came up with. It has flaws and advantages (tradeoffs), such as centralized points of failure, and I think the archive would be (and has been) ecstatic to explore improving these opportunities.