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ibiblio (formerly SunSITE and MetaLab) is a "collection of collections," and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source
Open source

Open source is an approach to design, development, and distribution offering practical accessibility to a product's source . Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical Strategy element of their business operations....
 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 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....
 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 university research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States....
, with partners including the Center for the Public Domain, IBM
IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
, 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 ....
.






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ibiblio (formerly SunSITE and MetaLab) is a "collection of collections," and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source
Open source

Open source is an approach to design, development, and distribution offering practical accessibility to a product's source . Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical Strategy element of their business operations....
 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 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....
 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 university research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States....
, with partners including the Center for the Public Domain, IBM
IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
, 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 ....
. It also offers streaming audio
Streaming media

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by, and normally presented to, an End-user while it is being delivered by a streaming provider ....
 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 UNC student-run radio station. It also takes credit for the first non-commercial IPv6
IPv6

Internet Protocol version 6 is the next-generation Internet layer protocol for packet -switched internetworking and the Internet. IPv4 is the dominant Internet Protocol version, and was the first to receive widespread use....
 / Internet2
Internet2

Internet2 is a non-profit consortiumthat develops and deploys advanced high-performance Computer network applications and technologies for education, research, and the next-generation public Internet....
 radio stream. Unless otherwise specified, all material on ibiblio is assumed to be in the public domain
Public domain

File:PD-icon.svgThe public domain is a range of abstract materials?commonly referred to as intellectual property?which are not owned or controlled by anyone....
.

ibiblio is a member of the Open Library
Open Library

File:Open library Screenshot Macaulay-dec-2008.jpgOpen Library a project designed to create a comprehensive online database of books. It is a project of the Internet Archive....
 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 university research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States....
 developed SunSITE, 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. is a multinational corporation vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services, founded on February 24, 1982....
, and thus the name. 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....
s, corporate businesses, and information technology entrepreneur
Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is a person who has possession of an organization, or venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome....
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


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Currently supported projects

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    Damn Small Linux

    Damn Small Linux or DSL is a computer operating system for the x86 architecture family of personal computers. It is Free software under the terms of its main license the GNU GPL....
     (Hosts MyDSL)
  • Groklaw
    Groklaw

    Groklaw is an award-winning website covering legal news of interest to the free and open-source software community. Started as a blog on May 16 2003 by paralegal Pamela Jones at Radio UserLand, it has covered issues such as: the SCO-Linux controversies; the European Union v....
     (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....
     (Began at MetaLab)
  • Project Gutenberg
    Project Gutenberg

    Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive and distribute cultural works, as founder Michael Hart said "To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks."....
     (Hosted)
  • Openphoto.net
    Openphoto.net

    openphoto.net is a web site offering photographic resources licensed under Creative Commons licenses, launched by Michael Jastremski, a photographer and journalist....
     (Hosted)
  • Tempora Heroica
    Tempora Heroica

    Tempora Heroica is a MUD. It is a text-based, fantasy roleplaying game that is home to a long-standing virtual community of players. The MUD is best known for its descriptive fantasy world, and for having a system of magic derived from the Ars Magica roleplaying game....
     (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....
     (Historical archive)
  • Lyceum
    Lyceum (software)

    Lyceum is an open-source blogging platform based on WordPress. It is currently developed by ibiblio....
     (ibiblio-run software research project)
  • Osprey (ibiblio-run software research project)
  • 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....
    (Hosted)
  • Eric S Raymond (Hosted)
  • Cafe au Lait
    Café au lait

    File:Caf? au lait.jpgCaf? au lait is a French coffee drink.In Europe, "caf? au lait" stems from the same continental tradition as "caff? latte" in Italy, "caf? con leche" in Spain, "kawa biala" in Poland, "Milchkaffee" in Germany, "koffie verkeerd" in Netherlands, and "caf? com leite" in Portugal, simply "coffee with milk"....
     (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 data compression on the net and only permits its users to distribute the music of artists that allow the Taper and trading of their music....
     (Hosted)
  • Videobloggers (Hosted)
  • World Tibet Day (Hosted)
  • Friends of Tibet (Hosted)
  • GPGPU
    GPGPU

    General-purpose computing on graphics processing units is the technique of using a graphics processing unit, which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform computation in applications traditionally handled by the central processing unit....
     (General-Purpose Computation Using Graphics Hardware) (Hosted)


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