Author: Sarah Holsapple

  • Archiving Groklaw

    One of our missions here at ibiblio is archiving dynamic websites. One place that we are putting those skills into action is Groklaw.net. Groklaw was started by paralegal Pamela Jones in 2003 as an “open source legal research project,” a place where legal practitioners and computer experts, as well as those just looking to understand law and specific legal cases could go to discuss and learn from each other. The site was active from 2003 to 2013.

    Groklaw contains detailed history including timelines, court documents, and exhibits of cases such as SCO v IBM (a long-running dispute over Linux source code), Oracle v Google (regarding Google’s use of the Java API in early versions of the Android OS, a precursor to Google v Oracle (which is set to be argued in front of the US Supreme Court in March 2020), and Apple v Samsung (a patent dispute over smartphone design).

    Student Systems Administrator Chase Pasciuto has been working tirelessly to archive the site so that it is all accessible in a static form (forum posts included). The goal is to keep the information available to the public for information and historic purposes in a static form.

  • B.B. King Archives

    This week we are highlighting the B.B. King Archive of Dr. William Ferris. B.B. King was born Riley B. King in 1925 in Mississippi. By the late 1940s King was playing the blues regularly on Beale Street in Memphis and soon went on to national success, eventually being inducted into the Blues and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame. B.B. King toured extensively until his death in 2015. B.B. King’s contribution to rock and roll and blues music is immeasurable.

    Visit the B.B. King Archive to browse through photos, videos, audio clips of the King of the Blues. This archive was created in 2004 by students at UNC Chapel Hill using material from the Ferris Collection, part of the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC Chapel Hill.

    https://www.ibiblio.org/catalog/items/show/4394

  • WebMuseum circa 1994

    Take some time to check out the WebMuseum https://www.ibiblio.org/catalog/items/show/3563. This site was state of the art in 1994 when it won the Best of the Web Award for Best Use of Multiple Media. You can view exhibits about Paul Cezanne and medieval art, and take a tour of Paris.