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by dyogenez 675 days ago
I hadn't thought of that, but I love the idea! How's that work?
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Register for an account and create a new item. You can replace files in the item , update the description to indicate what date the snapshot was made and what it contains.

https://help.archive.org/help/managing-and-editing-your-item...

It's a very open platform. Think up what the best format for your data is and upload a compressed zip file or tar.gz of the data.

I'd likely do different archives for images and metadata, so people that want to just process metadata can download that specific data and work on it.

Luckily as you can edit over time, you can experiment and adjust based upon user's feedback.

Nice! Yeah I like the idea of sharing our static book data here on some kind of cadence. I'll pencil this in by the end of the year.