all-human-knowledge

Like all persons of the Library, I have traveled in my youth; I have wandered in search of a book, perhaps the catalogue of catalogues...

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All Human Knowledge / Astronomy

Guide Star Catalog GSC-I contains 19 million stars with apparent magnitudes of 6 to 15. GSC-II is an all-sky catalog of 2 billion stars and galaxies
Messier Catalogue A set of 110 astronomical objects catalogued by Charles Messier
New General Catalogue A set of 7,840 deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer

All Human Knowledge / Biology

Catalogue of Life It holds essential information on the names, relationships and distributions of over 1.8 million species
Encyclopedia of Life Collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of living species known to science
WikiSpecies A comprehensive free content catalogue of all species with over 600,000 articles. ( ) ( )
World Flora Online A compendium of the world's plant species, 1.3 million names, 350,000 accepted species, 55,000 images

All Human Knowledge / Film and videos

IMDb A database with 5.9 million titles (including episodes) and 9.9 million personalities. ( )
Vimeo It contains over 40 million videos
YouTube Over 500 hours of video content are uploaded to YouTube every minute

All Human Knowledge / Geography

GeoNames It contains over 25 million geographical names corresponding to over 11 million unique features. ( )
OpenStreetMap Mapping the whole planet. ( )

All Human Knowledge / GLAM

Bibliothèque nationale de France 15 million books and publications, 1.5 million sound recordings, 900,000 maps, 260,000 videos. ( ) ( )
British Library 60 million patents, 13.5 million printed books and e-books, 8 million stamps, 7 million sound recordings, 4 million maps, 310,000 manuscripts. ( ) ( )
Library of Congress 38 million books and other printed materials, 3.6 million recordings, 14 million photographs, 5.5 million maps. ( )
National Diet Library 41 million items. ( )
National Library of China 37 million items
National Library of Spain 26 million items. ( )
Russian State Library 43 million items

All Human Knowledge / Literature, languages and publications

arXiv A repository of 1.6 million electronic preprints
Internet Archive Books 20 million books and texts freely downloadable
Open Library Project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". ( )
Project Gutenberg A library of over 60,000 free eBooks. ( ) ( ) ( )
Rosetta Project A disk containing over 13,000 pages of information on over 1,500 human languages
Wiktionary A dictionary with over 6 million entries from over 4,000 languages. ( ) ( )

All Human Knowledge / Music

Jamendo A community of over 42,000 artists and more than 600,000 tracks

All Human Knowledge / People

Find a Grave A database of cemetery records, over 152 million burial records and 75 million photos

All Human Knowledge / Photography

Flickr It hosts more than 6 billion images as of 2011
Geograph Britain and Ireland Archive of over 5 million geographically located photographs of Great Britain and Ireland
Wikimedia Commons A collection of 57 million freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute

All Human Knowledge / Social media

Facebook 2.27 billion users
Instagram 300 million users
Telegram 300 million users
Twitter 645 million users

All Human Knowledge / Software

GitHub 32 million public repositories
Google Code Archive It contains over 1.4 million projects
Software Heritage It holds over 91 million software projects, with an archive of over 6.4 billion unique source files as of 2020

All Human Knowledge / Knowledge preservation

Arch Mission Foundation Non-profit organization whose goal is to create multiple redundant repositories of human knowledge around the Solar System, including on Earth. It was founded by Nova Spivack and Nick Slavin in 2015
Archive Team A loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving digital heritage. Since 2009 this variant force of nature has caught wind of shutdowns, shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions - and done their best to save the history before it's lost forever
Arctic World Archive A world archive to help preserve the world's digital memory and ensure that the world's most irreplaceable digital memories of art, culture and literature are secured and made available to future generations
International Internet Preservation Consortium International organization of libraries and other organizations established to coordinate efforts to preserve Internet content for the future
Internet Archive San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images and books. As of 2019, its collection topped 50 petabytes
Long Now Foundation Non-profit organization based in San Francisco that seeks to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. It aims to provide a counterpoint to what it views as today's "faster/cheaper" mindset and to promote "slower/better" thinking
Memory of Mankind Preservation project funded in 2012 by Martin Kunze. The main goal is to preserve the knowledge about our present civilization from oblivion and collective amnesia. Information is printed on ceramic tablets, then stored in the salt mine of Hallstatt, Austria. More than a simple archive project, it aims to create the "Time capsule of our era", letting people participate by allowing them to submit texts and images. In contrast to national archives, content for MOM is collected by anyone who takes part. It is a collective, "bottom-up" told history
Memory of the World Programme International initiative launched by UNESCO to safeguard the documentary heritage of humanity against collective amnesia, neglect, the ravages of time and climatic conditions, and willful and deliberate destruction. It calls for the preservation of valuable archival holdings, library collections and private individual compendia all over the world for posterity, the reconstitution of dispersed or displaced documentary heritage, and the increased accessibility to and dissemination of these items
Rosetta Project A global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone to last from 2000 to 12,000 AD; it is run by the Long Now Foundation. Its goal is a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,500 languages. Some of these languages have fewer than one thousand speakers left
Voyager Golden Record The Voyager Golden Records are two phonograph records that were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. The records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form who may find them
Wikipedia to the Moon A group of science enthusiasts from Berlin, Germany, are planning to send their own custom-built rover to the Moon. And they want to take Wikipedia with them

All Human Knowledge / Other

Natural History A book about the whole of the natural world in Latin by Pliny the Elder, a Roman author and naval commander who died in 79 AD. ( ) ( ) ( ) (4) ( ) (6) ( )
Etymologiae An etymological encyclopedia, which summarized and organized a wealth of knowledge from hundreds of classical sources, compiled by Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) towards the end of his life
All Human Knowledge Topics and entities notable enough to be included on Wikipedia

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