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 The European Archive is a non-profit foundation working towards universal access to all knowledge. The archive will achieve this through partnerships with libraries, museums, other collection bodies, and through building its own collections. The primary goal of collecting this knowledge is to make it as publicly accessible as possible, via the Internet and other means. (...) The European Archive should be accessible in Europe’s language. A multilingual web management system for large digital collections has been implemented. This system is based on a flat structure permanently indexed and updated. (...) We expect the European Archive to become an essential piece in the European cultural heritage landscape. |
 The Internet Archive - this is a non-profit foundation " that was founded to build an ‘Internet library’, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format (...) the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections (...) The Internet Archive is working to prevent the Internet — a new medium with major historical significance — and other "born-digital" materials from disappearing into the past." |
| SourceForge.net is the world's largest Open Source software development web site, hosting more than 100,000 projects and over 1,000,000 registered users with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code. SourceForge.net has the largest repository of Open Source code and applications available on the Internet, and hosts more Open Source development products than any other site or network worldwide. SourceForge.net provides a wide variety of services to projects we host, and to the Open Source community. (...) SourceForge.net is owned by OSTG, Inc. (Open Source Technology Group). |
| LibriVox - " (...) is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting? - LibriVox Objective To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet. -Hugh McGuire, LibriVox founder, is a Montreal-based writer interested in the “free movement” in its many guises. (...) LibriVox volunteers read and record chapters of books in the public domain (meaning out of copyright - sorry, no Harry Potter, no Lord of the Rings, and no Da Vinci’s Code, though we’d love to do his notebooks). Then we make the files available on the internet, for free. We have several types of projects: collaborative projects, solo projects, short works (prose and poetry). " |
| Oslookup.org (Open
Source Directory) " (...) is
dedicated to managing
and promoting the
open source resources,
for the good of the
community, via it's
open source directory
and it's specialized
internet search engine.
Oslookup.org mission
is to be the most
relevant search engine,
not the biggest. We
would rather have
quality results, not
quantity. Oslookup.org
offers targeted searches
of specialized open-source
databases. We target
to provide the open
source community with
the largest and best
open-source web directory
on the web, to offer
what will be one of
the most amazing search
tools on the market. " |
 " Common
Content - is
a catalog of content,
a repository of
information about
works made available
under licenses from
the Creative Commons
project, or in the
Public Domain." (...) "The
Common Content catalog
is open for content
creators to add
their content to,
providing a central
place for the public
to discover new
and useful content" |
 Open
Directory Project -
The Open Directory
Project " is
the largest, most
comprehensive human-edited
directory of the
Web. It is constructed
and maintained by
a vast, global community
of volunteer editors
(...) The Open Directory
was founded in the
spirit of the Open
Source movement,
and is the only
major directory
that is 100% free. There
is not, nor will
there ever be, a
cost to submit a
site to the directory,
and/or to use the
directory's data
(...) powers the
core directory services
for the Web's largest
and most popular
search engines and
portals, including
Netscape Search,
AOL Search, Google,
Lycos, HotBot, DirectHit,
and hundreds of
others. " |
 ibiblio " The
public's library and
digital archive -
Home to one of the
largest "collections
of collections" on
the Internet, ibiblio.org
is a conservancy of
freely available information,
including software,
music, literature,
art, history, science,
politics, and cultural
studies. ibiblio.org
is a collaboration
of the Center
for the Public Domain and The
University of North
Carolina - Chapel
Hill. " > and
from ibiblio FAQ page
you can also read
: " We're
all about freedom,
man! Free
Tibet, Free
Burma, Free Love,
you get the picture.
We offer a free platform
for the exchange of
free thought. We host
tons of cultural sites
like Documenting
the American South, http://www.ibiblio.org/zen,
and North
Carolina Raves (all
of which can be seen
from our collections
index). We are
also one of the first
servers to mirror
the original Linux
kernel, so you
can tell we're big
on free software,
too. - If you've got
something culturally
cool and need a place
to go, check out the ibiblio
Collections Criteria to
see if your collection
would qualify for
hosting. If you do
think it does, follow
the procedures outlined
there for contacting
us about contributing.
-If you've got software
that you think would
go great with our
already humongous
collection of free
software, read our
directions on
properly uploading
software and having
it added. " |
| The
Universal Library -
Hosted by the Carnegie
Mellon University,
The Universal Library
exists to change
the fact that all
the transmission
of our cultural
heritage has been
happening though
very frigile media
until now. Mankind
has lost too many
treasures due to
fires, wars, earthquakes,
etc, and other than
this, many people
haven't had access
to information because
for too many years
culture has been
isolated to serve
few. Digital technology
could change all
this. |
 Scirus " is
the most comprehensive
science-specific search
engine on the Internet.
Driven by the latest
search engine technology,
Scirus searches over
250 million science-specific
Web pages (...) Pinpoint
scientific, scholarly,
technical and medical
data on the Web " Note
: with Scirus the
user can find both
free material (to
use under an open
usage license) and
Non-free material.
Is a very useful,
interesting and free
tool, for students,
researchers and everyone
needing scientific
data. |
 The
World eBook Library -
this website " includes
hyperlinks to over
250,000 works of
literature in many
languages i.e.,
Japanese, Mandarin,
Cantonese, French,
Spanish, Russian,
Italian, German,
etc (...) although
the primary focus
of our archived
collection is text
files, we also provide
images, maps, and
photographs (such
as LandSat satellite
photographs of the
earth), selected
pieces of great
music such as Beethoven's
Fifth Symphony (in
Stereo), and video
recordings of notable,
historic events
such as the Apollo
11 Lunar Landing
(...) Today, the
World eBook Library
has 65 consortia
members; together
we have combined
our individual collections
to create a world
class free Internet
Public Access Section
to all HTML eBook
and an optional
member supported
PDF eBook section.
Each year, the World
eBook Library nearly
doubles its entire
digital holdings.
Boasting over 330,000+
eBooks and eDocuments,
making the World
eBook Library Consortium
the world's largest
eBook site." |
 Project
Gutenberg " is
the first and largest
single collection
of free electronic
books, or eBooks.
Michael Hart, founder
of Project Gutenberg,
invented eBooks
in 1971 ".
(Its) Mission Statement: " to
encourage the creation
and distribution
of eBooks. " |
 " The
Open Content Alliance (OCA)
represents the collaborative
efforts of a group
of cultural, technology,
nonprofit, and governmental organizations from
around the world
that will help build
a permanent archive
of multilingual
digitized text and
multimedia content.
Content in the OCA
archive will be
accessible soon
through this website
and through Yahoo!
- The OCA will encourage
the greatest possible
degree of access
to and reuse of
collections in the
archive, while respecting
the content owners
and contributors.
Contributors to
the OCA must agree
to the principles
set forth in the Call
for Participation. " > the
following text is
taken from Wikipedia
: " The
Open Content Alliance
is a consortium
of non-profit and
for-profit groups
which is dedicated
to building a free
archive of digital
text and multimedia.
It was conceived
in 2005 by Yahoo and
the Internet
Archive. It
was conceived in
response to Google
Book Search's
closed nature, and
aims to keep public
domain works
in the public domain
on-line. These results
will then be used
in the search results
of participating
search engines.
You can see a sample
of the open content
at Open Library [1].
- A large difference
between the OCA's
approach and that
of Google Book Search
is that the OCA
intends to ask a
copyright holder
before digitising
a work that is still
under copyright,
while Google Book
Search will digitise
any book unless
they were explicitly
told not to do so
by November 1, 2005. " |
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