A fire at the Internet Archive's San Francisco scanning center has destroyed an estimated $600,000 of digitization and scanning equipment. Fortunately no-one was injured in the blaze, but the property damage has ruined "some physical materials" that were yet to be digitized, and restricted the non-profit organization's ability to record the history of the web.
Of the physical materials the fire destroyed, about half had already been digitized. The Internet Archive says it's now working with library partners to assess what can be replaced. None of the Internet Archive's digitized data was lost in the fire as backups are held in multiple locations.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/7/5076166/the-internet-archive-seeks-donations-after-fire-destroys-equipment
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