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I was interested in the others, but https://www.internetarchive.eu is a horrible corporate-looking site with a hero image, a boast about AI, a carousel of news that won't scroll with doing its slow scroll animation, a huge "meet the team" section with mugshots and boring profiles, social media links, a newsletter signup form, and nothing to say where the actual archive is.

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Reading what little information they have there, they aren't a public facing or public serving organization. They seem to provide their services to institutions only:

"working with dozens of European libraries and government agencies to build web collections, Internet Archive Europe prioritized collaboration with cultural heritage organizations to safeguard our collective history."

Internet Archive runs a completely separate version of their site for paying institutional clients. https://archive-it.org/

In a best case scenario, this eventually becomes the replacement for the (lets be honest) absurdly awful archive.org front and backend.

So: an expansion into the EU market. And yes, a honeypot for grant funds, because why not? Good for them.

Looks like an "organization" tailor made to be awarded EU funds for their "mission".

Mysteries abound.

The .eu branch that card zero criticized seems to be based in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands (an EU member). Or am I missing something?

I think people are questioning the "Archive" part, not the "Europe" part of the name

Somewhere there's a "create a random, soulless, corporate website generator", and these folks used it.

I was excited to see there's a Canadian one, but it's just a Wordpress blog?

They do exist and involved in archiving. Someone reached out to our amateur radio club and offered to archive any documents we might have. They even asked to archive the video recording of one of our monthly meetings.

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