dmoz Open Directory Project
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From the project website:
"The Open Directory is the most widely distributed data base of Web content classified by humans.
Its editorial standards body of net-citizens provide the collective brain behind resource
discovery on the Web. The Open Directory 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."
"Signing up is easy: choose a topic you know something about and join. Editing categories is
a snap. We have a comprehensive set of tools for adding, deleting, and updating links in
seconds. For just a few minutes of your time you can help make the Web a better place, and be
recognized as an expert on your chosen topic."
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Zeal is a similar project to dmoz, and is hosted by looksmart.
Zeal is a completely non-commercial directory built by a community of
volunteer editors.
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The WWW Virtual Library is "the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of
HTML and the web itself." It is compiled by volunteers who make lists
of links for areas in which they are expert.
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oomind
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Contribute knowledge to oomind, the Open Education Community. oomind organizes information
about any subject into "Courselets," small articles which are submitted by
contributors and scored or graded by other contributors. You can submit
new Courselets, grade others' Courselets, or study Courselets and earn credit
for taking quizzes about them.
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Contribute to Nupedia, the open content encyclopedia, the world's largest international,
peer-reviewed encyclopedia. The project needs writers, editors and peer reviewers, copy
editors, programmers, translators, graphic and audio artists, and casual
participants.
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MusicBrainz
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From the project website:
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music
encyclopedia. Automatic Audio CD and digital audio track identification using community supplied
and maintained data is the first goal of MusicBrainz.
In the future, MusicBrainz will have a genre system and a comprehensive geneology of music,
tracking not only music releases, but also detailed information about who contributed to a piece
of music. MusicBrainz will keep track of which artists/performers/engineers contributed to a
piece of music, and when these contributions took place. The system will also keep track of
artist influences on each other and many more pieces of information to create a comprehensive
geneology of modern music.
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FreeDB
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FreeDB is another database that stores meta data about music CDs. It is a free, public
database equivalent to the proprietary CDDB
database. You can access FreeDB through a web interface or through
FreeDB-aware software over the Internet. You can also contribute information
about new CDs to the database through FreeDB-aware software.
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Internet Movie Database
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The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online, web-based, free database with all the
information you could ever want about movies and anything related to movies.
It is available on servers in the U.S. and the U.K.. You can contribute new
information via a web interface or email.
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Everything2
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From the project website:
Everything2 is "a very complex
online community with a focus to write, publish and edit a quality database of
information, insight and humor. When you make an account here you join not
only a team of dedicated writers but an entire micro-society and community
with its own pop culture, politics, beauty and blunders. It's not perfect.
In fact, it can be pretty messy. It's cool as hell, though..."
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JoeAnt.com is a search engine of hand-picked links and is maintained by a volunteer online
community. Join the project and help build the database.
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Logos
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Logos is a "multilingual e-translation portal."
Volunteers can become registered users and can then expand and correct the
dictionaries and verb conjugations. Guests can recommend corrections and
additions to the dictionaries.
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Contribute to Wiktionary, "a collaborative project to produce a free and complete
multilingual dictionary and thesaurus in every language. Wiktionary is the
lexical companion to the open content encyclopaedia Wikipedia."
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Contribute to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, "a collaborative project to produce a
complete encyclopedia from scratch." In January, 2003, the project reached
its first goal of making over 100,000 encyclopedia articles. Everyone is
welcome to contribute to the project.
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