Quickly progressing

Posted by kalbers on May 26th 2006 to Uncategorized

Things are moving pretty quickly for the Mozilla DMB here. We currently have over 500 objects entered into the archive, thanks mostly to the heroic efforts of our summer intern Robby. We’ve tended to pluck the low-hanging fruit so far (a natural tendency for historians starting a project I think), so you’ll find a lot of Flickr images, press releases, and status updates, with a few interviews and bibliographic entries sprinkled in.  We are starting to come to fully comprehend the seemingly endless scope of this project, but are excited to be moving forward so quickly already.  Some of our latest discussions have involved whether Google really has any copyright over Usenet discussions (hopefully they will just allow us to republish the material) and how we might ingest blogs (any ideas here would be welcome).

The archive is currently browsable, although the map and timeline features have not been implemented yet.  The map should be live soon, but the timeline will likely take some … well, time to work out.  It should be pretty neat when it comes about, especially if we can work something like this into it.

~Ken

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2 Responses to “Quickly progressing”

  1. Mitchell Baker
    May 26th, 2006 | 6:51 pm

    Ken

    Your post says the archive is browsable, but I didn’t see a link (other than the link to Google Earth).

    Mitchell

  2. kalbers
    May 26th, 2006 | 7:31 pm

    Whoops, sorry about that. You can find the archive here