ibiblio
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| URL | www.ibiblio.org |
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| Slogan | The public's library and digital archive |
| Alexa rank | approx. 5000 |
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Digital library and archive |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available language(s) | Multilingual, but predominately English |
| Owner | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Created by | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Sun Microsystems |
| Launched | ca. 1992 |
| Current status | Online |
ibiblio (formerly SunSITE and MetaLab) is a "collection of collections," and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source software, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. As an "Internet librarianship," ibiblio is a digital library and archive project. It is run by the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with partners including the Center for the Public Domain, IBM, and SourceForge.[1] It also offers streaming audio radio stations. In November 1994 it started the first internet radio stream by rebroadcasting WXYC, the UNC student-run radio station. It also takes credit for the first non-commercial IPv6 / Internet2 radio stream. Unless otherwise specified, all material on ibiblio is assumed to be[citation needed] in the public domain.
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History
In 1992, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill developed SunSITE, which was to be an archive and an information sharing project for the public. It was funded by grants from Sun Microsystems, 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"[2]) and the name was changed to MetaLab. It collaborated with various sources, including academic institutions, corporate businesses, and information technology entrepreneurs. 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[3] | 2006[3] | 2008[4] | |
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| 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 |
See also
General
- Damn Small Linux (Hosts MyDSL)
- Groklaw (Hosted)
- Linux Documentation Project (Began at MetaLab)
- Project Gutenberg (Hosted)
- Openphoto.net (Hosted)
- Tempora Heroica (Hosted)
- Yggdrasil Linux (Historical archive)
- Lyceum (ibiblio-run software research project)
- Confluence (Hosted)
- Eric S Raymond (Hosted)
- etree (Hosted)
- Videobloggers (Hosted)
Lists
References
- ^ "Who are your major contributors/partners?". FAQ. ibiblio. Retrieved on 2008-06-25.
- ^ ibiblio FAQ, "Why did you change names from SunSite to MetaLab? Why did you change the name from MetaLab to ibiblio?." Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- ^ a b "2006 of ibiblio". ibiblio.org (2006). Retrieved on 2008-08-21.
- ^ "2007-08 of ibiblio". ibiblio.org (2008). Retrieved on 2008-08-21.
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