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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Write The Docs PDX - Internet Archive: Universal Access. Open APIs (Speaker: VM Brasseur)</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2017-06-13T18:00:00" datetime="2017-06-13T18:00:00">Tuesday, June 13, 2017 from 6</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2017-06-13T20:00:00" datetime="2017-06-13T20:00:00">8pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202395493'><span class='fn org p-name'>New Relic</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">111 SW 5th Ave, #2700</div> <span class="locality p-locality">27th floor</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97204</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">us</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=111%20SW%205th%20Ave,%20%232700,%2027th%20floor%20OR%2097204%20us'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>With tens of millions of items in its collections, Internet Archive is one of the largest libraries in the world. It provides free and open access to all of its materials to anyone with an internet connection, making it a treasure trove for researchers, historians, and curious individuals.</p> <p> </p><p>Of course, having a collection that large doesn’t help anyone if it’s difficult to access. To help with this, Internet Archive has released a number of open APIs and tools to allow people to upload and download items, as well as data mine the metadata for the entire collection.</p> <p>In this session we will:</p> <p><em> Give you a tour of Internet Archive and its collections<br></em> Introduce you to the APIs and tools you can use to access and contribute to the Archive<br>* Show examples of how other people and institutions are using the Archive</p> <p>Speaker Bio:</p> <p>In VM (aka Vicky)'s nearly 20 years in the tech industry she has been an analyst, programmer, product manager, software engineering manager, director of software engineering, and C-level technical business and open source strategy consultant. Vicky is the winner of the Perl White Camel Award (2014) and the O'Reilly Open Source Award (2016).</p> <p>Vicky occasionally blogs at <a href="http://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com" class="linkified">http://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com</a>, often writes and is a community moderator for opensource.com, and frequently tweets at @vmbrasseur.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="https://www.meetup.com/Write-The-Docs-PDX/events/239993859/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>