The Internet Archive

Services to two groups
Content for “Library of All Human Knowledge” Universal access to all human knowledge (eventually)
A safe, free space in which to archive content

Partners
Libraries
Museums
Archives
Individual Creators

Value for Stakeholders
Value is ideological and philosophical - Value is practical -
“save the born-digital material” Access to storage space
“prevent digital dark-age” Access to content
“change the content of the Internet from Guarantee that it will endure
ephemera to enduring artifacts of our political and Guarantee that it will always be free
cultural lives”

Community Relationship
Strategy
Target certain digital archives -
Amazon, Google, BBC
Collaborate with analogue collections
- LoC, Smithsonian, Prelinger
Open door for everyone else to
upload and reuse
“The Archive has no vested interest
in the discoveries of the users of its
collections”
Stay “free”

Revenue Streams
Brewster Kahle’s own cash
Government Grants
Private Foundations
Donations in Kind