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carlosjobimtoday at 2:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

Reading what little information they have there, they aren't a public facing or public serving organization. They seem to provide their services to institutions only:

"working with dozens of European libraries and government agencies to build web collections, Internet Archive Europe prioritized collaboration with cultural heritage organizations to safeguard our collective history."


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badlibrariantoday at 6:20 PM

Internet Archive runs a completely separate version of their site for paying institutional clients. https://archive-it.org/

In a best case scenario, this eventually becomes the replacement for the (lets be honest) absurdly awful archive.org front and backend.

So: an expansion into the EU market. And yes, a honeypot for grant funds, because why not? Good for them.

casey2today at 6:12 PM

"Prisoners obsessed with their chains, more at 11"

What I don't understand is after all why know about Whiteness and Eurocentrism that people would still willingly create and fund projects like this. The public might actually make sense, but B2B/B2G makes none beyond these orgs having the power to prevent others from doing it.