Internet Archive Scholar @scholar@mastodon.archive.org

"One site, scholar.archive.org, has PDFs going back to the 18th century. It’s empowering to look for this stuff instead of waiting for it to be socially discovered and jammed into my brain."
💕 @ftrain
https://www.wired.com/story/tweet-dying-revolutionary-internet/
(h/t @jstogdill for the reference)

Pushed a fresh snapshot of fatcat metadata last week:
https://archive.org/download/fatcat_bulk_exports_2022-11-24

Hundreds of millions of paper, file, and journal records. More info about these dumps, and schema, at https://guide.fatcat.wiki/bulk_exports.html

Scholar is built on an open, editable bibliographic catalog: https://fatcat.wiki

Most of the records are automatically imported from our wonderful upstream sources, but any human can directly submit corrections and additions through the web interface or API. These submissions are then reviewed in the open before merging. The entire catalog is versioned and can be downloaded in bulk or synchronized using a "changelog" feed.

You can learn more about editing at:
https://guide.fatcat.wiki/editing_quickstart.html

Hemingwayesque: 104 hits https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=Hemingwayesque
Kiplingesque: 340 hits https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=Kiplingesque
Turneresque: 358 hits https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=Turneresque
Kafkaesque: 2,423 hits https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=Kafkaesque

via:
https://scholar.archive.org/work/iptlbacnkngpjgrcfeuxa7zvne
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_words_suffixed_with_-esque

Sinatraesque: 3 hits https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=Sinatraesque
Cocteauesque: 8 hits https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=Cocteauesque
Bowiesque: 7 hits https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=Bowiesque
Ramboesque: 20 hits https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=Ramboesque
Bergmanesque: 31 hits https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=Bergmanesque
Pynchonesque: 24 hits https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=Pynchonesque
Escheresque: 36 hits https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=Escheresque
Felliniesque: 48 hits https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=Felliniesque
McCarthyesque: 42 hits https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=McCarthyesque
Daliesque: 57 hits https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=Daliesque

trafilatura (https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura) is a nice python library that we use to extract article full text from HTML documents for indexing in scholar. It has good accuracy and recall, works with "old" HTML (eg from web archives), and pulls out metadata like title, author, and date. There are lots of similar tools, mostly focused on news articles, and trafilatura is an improvement.

Thanks to Adrien Barbaresi for maintaining it!

#freesoftware #python #webarchiving #digitallibrary

A less-known feature of IA Scholar is that every search result page has an RSS feed, via the link under the search bar.

Quick and easy way to keep up with a specific topic, venue, or author in your feed reader!

Scholars continue to publish papers in Latin, well in to the twenty first century! Here is a snippets of Dennis Toscano's Masters thesis from the University of Kentucky (2016), contextualizing an anonymous poem, itself in Latin, from 1741:

Opus cui titulus est "Carthago Indiarum obsessa sed non expugnata" est carmen divulgatum sine nomine auctoris saeculo duodevicesimo ad celebrandam victoriam quam Hispani a Britannis Carthagenae Indiarum anno...

https://scholar.archive.org/work/wltkjjt7yjeyzpoghtdftrfuea
https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=lang%3Ala+year%3A%3E2000+%21journal%3Abohemica

Quadratic Equation, in Braille. Via Visual impairment in MSOR by Emma Jane Rowlett and Peter James Rowlett (2010)
https://scholar.archive.org/work/lnt5w5xenjfnvbd33snrfrrxhq