Int. Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals
8 days ago
- #occult periodicals
- #AI impact
- #digital preservation
- IAPSOP server is being overrun by crawlers, likely collecting data for AI training, leading to throttled speeds and limited bandwidth.
- IAPSOP is a US-based private organization preserving Spiritualist and occult periodicals from 1815-1939, run by volunteers.
- They offer free access to their archive, accept contributions, and provide support for researchers and students.
- Current holdings include 4.13 million pages, 48,000 files, and 730GB of data.
- Recent milestones include updates to German and French occult periodicals in Q1 2023.
- Top 20 publications and visiting countries (US, UK, Canada, etc.) are listed, along with least-frequent visitors (Togo, Ukraine, etc.).