Ibiblio
Encyclopedia
ibiblio is a "collection of collections," and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 software, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. As an "Internet librarianship," ibiblio is a digital library
Digital library
A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats and accessible by computers. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks...

 and archive project. It is run by the School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science
The University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science, or more commonly SILS, is a graduate school offering Masters in Library Science and Masters in Information Science and Ph.D. degrees. Also offered are dual degree programs coordinated jointly with UNC's Kenan Flagler...

 and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication
The first UNC journalism class was taught in 1909 in the English department. The Department of Journalism was founded in 1924. It became a school in 1950. In 1990, Mass Communication was added to the name. In 1999, the School moved into Carroll Hall...

 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...

, with partners including the Center for the Public Domain
Center for the Public Domain
The Center for the Public Domain was a charitable foundation founded in 1999 by Bob Young as the Red Hat Center. It provided free online legal resources, sponsored public domain spaces on the internet, and campaigned for copyright reforms....

, IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

, and SourceForge
SourceForge
SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free software / open source software applications .While originally itself...

. It also offers streaming audio
Streaming media
Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.The term "presented" is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather...

 radio stations. In November 1994 it started the first internet radio stream by rebroadcasting WXYC
WXYC
WXYC is a radio station broadcasting a college radio format. Licensed to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, the station is run by students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The station is currently owned by Student Educational Broadcasting...

, the UNC student-run radio station. It also takes credit for the first non-commercial IPv6
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...

 / Internet2
Internet2
Internet2 is an advanced not-for-profit US networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government....

 radio stream. Unless otherwise specified, all material on ibiblio is assumed to be in the public domain
Public domain
Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...

.

ibiblio is a member of the Open Library
Open Library
Open Library is an online project intended to create “one web page for every book ever published”. Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation.-Books for the blind and...

 and Open Content Alliance
Open Content Alliance
The Open Content Alliance is a consortium of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts. Its creation was announced in October 2005 by Yahoo!, the Internet Archive, the University of California, the University of Toronto and others...

.

History

In 1992, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...

 developed SunSITE.unc.edu, which was to be an archive and an information sharing project for the public. It was funded by grants from Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...

, and thus the name
Sunsite
SunSITE is a network of Internet servers providing archives of information, software and other publicly available resources...

. The relationship with Sun came to an end (an amicable one, according to the ibiblio FAQ; the change in name was for a "vendor-neutral name that expressed what our project has evolved into over the years") and the name was changed to MetaLab. It collaborated with various sources, including academic institution
Academic institution
Academic institution is an educational institution dedicated to education and research, which grants academic degrees. See also academy and university.- Types of academic institutions include :...

s, corporate businesses, and information technology entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

s. In September 2000, MetaLab began to collaborate with the Center for the Public Domain; the name was changed to ibiblio to reflect the goal of being "the public's library and digital archive."
2002 2006 2008
Collections 800 1600+ 2500+
Visits (ftp+www/day) 3 million 15+ million 16+ million
Data (terabytes) 1 8 13
Web servers 1 large, 2 peripherals 22 www/vhosts 25 www/vhost servers
Database servers 2 5 7
Radio stations 4 7 6

Currently supported projects

  • Cafe au Lait
    Café au lait
    Café au lait is a French coffee drink. The meaning of the term differs between Europe and the United States; in both cases it means some kind of coffee with hot milk added, in contrast to white coffee, which is coffee with room temperature milk or other whitener added.- Europe :In Europe, "café au...

     (Hosted)
  • Damn Small Linux
    Damn Small Linux
    Damn Small Linux or DSL is a computer operating system for the x86 family of personal computers. It is free and open source software under the terms of GNU GPL and other free and open source licenses. It was designed to run graphical applications on older PC hardware—for example, machines with...

     (Hosts MyDSL)
  • Degree Confluence Project
    Degree Confluence Project
    The Degree Confluence Project is a World Wide Web-based all-volunteer project which aims to have people visit each of the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on Earth, posting photographs and a narrative of each visit online. Intersections are defined on the horizontal datum WGS...

     (Hosted)
  • Eric S Raymond (Hosted)
  • etree
    Etree
    etree, or electronic tree, is a music community created in the summer of 1998 for the online trading of live concerts. etree pioneered the standards for distributing lossless audio on the net and only permits its users to distribute the music of artists that allow the free taping and trading of...

     (Hosted)
  • Friends of Tibet (Hosted)
  • GPGPU
    GPGPU
    General-purpose computing on graphics processing units is the technique of using a GPU, which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform computation in applications traditionally handled by the CPU...

     (General-Purpose Computation Using Graphics Hardware) (Hosted)
  • Groklaw
    Groklaw
    Groklaw is an award-winning website covering legal news of interest to the free and open source software community. Started as a law blog on May 16, 2003 by paralegal Pamela Jones at Radio UserLand, it has covered issues such as the SCO-Linux lawsuits, the EU anti-trust case against Microsoft, and...

     (Hosted)
  • Linux Documentation Project
    Linux Documentation Project
    The Linux Documentation Project is an all-volunteer project that maintains a large collection of GNU and Linux-related documentation and publishes the collection online. It began as a way for hackers to share their documentation with each other and with their users, and for users to share...

     (Began at MetaLab)
  • Lyceum
    Lyceum (software)
    Lyceum is an open-source blogging platform based on WordPress. It was developed by ibiblio, though is currently inactive.-History:Lyceum was first made public in February 2006. It originally began in mid-2005, and development is synchronous with WordPress...

     (ibiblio-run software research project)
  • Openphoto.net (Hosted)
  • Osprey (ibiblio-run software research project)
  • Project Gutenberg
    Project Gutenberg
    Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books...

     (Hosted)
  • Tempora Heroica (Hosted)
  • Videobloggers (Hosted)
  • World Tibet Day (Hosted)
  • Yggdrasil Linux
    Yggdrasil Linux
    Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X, or LGX , was an early Linux distribution developed by Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated, a company founded by Adam J. Richter in Berkeley, California.Yggdrasil was the first company to create a Live CD Linux distribution...

    (Historical archive)
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