A short thread of non-profit, free, public access, open source, projects I help work on:
1/8
http://openlibrary.org  - @aaronsw's 1 web-page for every book at @internetarchive: 4M books to read & borrow

2/8
http://bazam.org  - shazam for identifying books (beta)

3/8
http://graph.global  - a search index for your mind

(open-source, wikidata-like memex w/ backlinks since 2015)

4/8
http://skillsera.org  - a hyperlinked wiki of educational youtube video explanations.

A never-ending rabbit hole for learning.

5/8
https://bookgenomeproject.org  - an open-to-public-contributions book data-mining pipeline which allows the community to extract insights by running against fulltext of Internet Archive's books.

Pandora music genome for books.
Reading level, summaries, entity detection, urls...

7/8
https://groovebox.org  - a spotify-like interface for searching + playing the @internetarchive's 2M+ live concert tracks from John Mayer, Explosions in the sky, Mogwai, Smashing Pumpkins, Grateful Dead

8/8
Interested in knowing more about how you might be able to use or contribute to any of these projects?

https://mek.fyi/contribute 

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