Internet Archive has begun gathering content for the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC), which will be a massive online library of materials and collections related to amateur radio and early digital communications.<p>The DLARC project is looking for contributors with troves of ham radio, amateur radio, and early digital communications related books, magazines, documents, catalogs, manuals, videos, software, personal archives, and other historical records collections, no matter how big or small. In addition to physical material to digitize, we are looking for podcasts, newsletters, video channels, and other digital content that can enrich the DLARC collections.
Probably totally digress, but I wish IA can organize their digital library slightly better.<p>One day I was checking some manga books by ISBN on IA just out of curiosity. And for some reason, it put the ISBNs for all the volumes of a manga into one single entry (<a href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_1919979003907" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/isbn_1919979003907</a>, check "ISBN" metadata section) and unsurprisingly, the actual content is only one volume, vol.43 (not even vol.1!). I have a feeling other volumes may exist somewhere there, but there is no way to search for them.<p>This isn't a one-off occurrence either, it reflects my experience for trying to find specific item there well, especially for non-English books.
How about these, not mine personally, but one's I'm aware of.<p>- <a href="http://c2.com/morse/" rel="nofollow">http://c2.com/morse/</a><p>- <a href="http://c2.com/~ward/morse/" rel="nofollow">http://c2.com/~ward/morse/</a><p>- History of W9YB <a href="http://c2.com/w4/yb/" rel="nofollow">http://c2.com/w4/yb/</a> (Purdue Amateur Radio Club)
There are millions of "reflector" messages that contain a tremendous amount of knowledge. I hope the project manages to archive those as well.
Ahh, this is great. I was already seriously impressed by the amount of amateur radio content on the Internet Archive. I'm happily surprised to see some solicitation for even more content! Passing this along to my relevant communities/clubs/etc. (also just emailed one possible place to archive :))
It would be awesome if one day we go back and hear all these small town and college radio stations and the types of shows in them.<p>Woukd be a cool time capsule.
The IA has really lost its reputation as an archive by choosing to remove content down for political purposes. They see themselves as publishers rather than an archive.
As far as I'm concerned the IA can stick this up their arse.
They REFUSE to acknowlege my request to have a personal website that they've managed to archive removed.
It's a person blog that I want online so I can give the URL to family and friends, but I keep it out of Google etc with robots.txt. But once during an upgrade of the backend software I stuffed up the robots.txt and they crawled it until I fixed it up.<p>Will they reply to my emails? They will not. I'm so frustrated, they just IGNORE emails.<p>Don't support these clowns.