Ibiblio

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The correct title of this article is ibiblio. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

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

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Ibiblio is one of the oldest WWW Internet websites and a large conservancy of freely available information, 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 jointly by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Center for the Public Domain. 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 in the public domain.

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"[1]) 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 2006
800 Collections 1600+ Collections
3 million ftp+www/day 15+ million ftp+www/day
1 terabyte of data 8 terabytes of data
1 large server, 2 peripherals 22 www/vhosts
2 database servers 5 database servers
4 radio stations 7 radio stations
0 open-source projects 2 open-source projects

(Table source: [2].)

Although ibiblio has a strong local presence, it is also has an international standing.[3]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ ibiblio 2006 annual report
  3. ^ Google trends analysis

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