Physical Archive
The Internet Archive is not purely digital -- there is a Physical Archive as well. But it's set up in an somewhat unusual way -- serving primarily as a place for things that will be digitized (eventually) or have been digitized, but might need to be re-done later for different purposes or with different or better technology. Unlike most archives, it's not intended for regular random-access.
It is located at 2512 Florida Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804. There is also a second data center, described as being on "Carlson Ave, Richmond", although the actual address is 380 Carlson Blvd (not Ave).
External Links
- https://blog.archive.org/2011/05/12/physical-archive-launch/
- https://blog.archive.org/2011/06/06/why-preserve-books-the-new-physical-archive-of-the-internet-archive/
- https://blog.archive.org/2012/03/04/page-1-of-the-nytimes-in-a-flood-tide-of-digital-data-an-ark-full-of-books/
- https://blog.archive.org/2018/09/28/physical-archive-party-october-28th-2018/
- https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22physical+archive%22
- https://clustrmaps.com/a/3vsfq6/ (identifies the address of the Carlson warehouse)
- https://archive.org/details/warehouse380carlson (various pictures of the Carlson warehouse)
