Hacker News Reader

To be fair the linked document was uploaded just today to a collection that seems be considered a "waystation" collection so probably the document will be moved later to a permanent collection.

And I think they have bots that process the uploaded documents to do OCR and create previews.

View on HN

Even for quite mature documents, allowing users to curate them would benefit everyone.

This mature archived item https://archive.org/details/whattodrawhowtod00lutz/ is well described, but it is missing tags and it's not part of any relevant collection that would help us discover other similar books.

I agree that getting more people involved (by crowdsourcing or other ways) will be beneficial to the project. But it'll depend on how the effort will be organized.

My experience with the website is that the original uploader can edit some part of the "metadata" (not all) of the uploaded document like title, description, topics/tags ..., but they can't move it to a different collection (initially the document is uploaded the "community" collection).

If they want to put it in a different collection they have to contact archive.org's staff.

Sometimes the staff notice the new files and move them to the correct collection or even create a new one for them (the latter case happened to me).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com