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Outernet Library Branch – Wave Farm

Outernet Library Branch – Wave Farm is a receiving station for Outernet data transmissions installed in June 2016 for long-term operation on the grounds of Wave Farm, in Acra, New York.

The Outernet (https://outernet.is/), an expanding library collection of data broadcast from a network of satellites in space, is a new and separate system outside the Internet. Envisioned as an open, worldwide, and collaborative platform, the Outernet allows its users to participate in the selection of what it contains. An Outernet library receiving station collects transmissions and stores files locally; those files can then be accessed by wireless devices within range of the station.

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Visitors view library files on phones using the branch’s wifi connection. The files are received from the Galaxy 19 satellite and stored on a computer within the seating structure.

Outernet Library Branch–Wave Farm features a satellite dish antenna surrounded by Adirondack-chair-inspired seating, with a bench oriented toward each cardinal direction. The WiFi network access area is defined by a large mowed meadow. In addition to seating, the structure houses a box for electronics and a single physical library reference book located under the east bench. On entering the library area and perhaps taking a seat, a library branch visitor may read, view, listen to, and save library materials using a browser on their cell phone, tablet or computer.

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The branch’s one physical reference book concerns libraries. See Outernet Library Branch – Wave Farm: Library Book

 

Filed Under: archive, front-page, public projects, radio Tagged With: space, text

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    • Go GOES Radiotelescope – 2017
    • Collective-action Motion Study of Anik-E1 – 2017
    • Southern Florida Beachball Antenna Archive – 2017
    • Ground Station – 2014-2018
    • Beachball Antennas – 2016
    • Outernet Library Branch – Wave Farm – 2016
    • Outernet Library Branch – Wave Farm: Library Book – 2016
    • Menu for Mars Supper Club – 2014-2016
    • YOU ARE HERE – 2015
    • Conjuring the Northern Lights – 2014
    • Faxes from Space – 2014
    • L5 From Here – 2013-2017
    • SP Weather Station – 2007-2014
    • Long Island City Sundial Field Guide – 2013
    • Details from the Least Popular – 2013
    • ISS Road Trip – 2012
    • SLICED – 2012
    • Atlas Dream Sequence – 2012
    • Push for Luck Project Archive – 2012
    • Satellites – 2012
    • Space Junk Guide to the Hayden Planetarium – 2012
    • The Time Machine – 2012
    • Tranquility Base – 2012
    • Volumes with Flock – 2012
    • Stargazing by Microscope – 2011
    • Cloud Book Study – 2011
    • Fake Snow Collection – 2010
    • Orbital Debris Simulator – 2010
    • Manhattanhenge – 2009
    • Urban Forest on 14th Street – 2009
    • Forest & Stream – 2009
    • On Safari, 1976 – 2009
    • SP Potluck Project – 2009
    • Home Planetarium Survey – 2008
    • One Thousand Orbits – 2007
    • Uniform Paper – 2006
    • Backsides of Type – 2006
    • A Block of Alleys – 2005
    • Roofs print series – 2004
    • Atlas of Punctuation – 2004
    • Typography of the Period – 2003
    • Nest Variations – 2003
    • Maps 1997-2001
    • Humans Labeled – 1999
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