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Integrated Authority File
German National Library authority file for personal names, subject headings and corporate bodies
Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
astronomical database
Freebase
online knowledge base (2007–2016)
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
online database of written speculative fiction and its creators
Lingua Libre
Words pronunciation and signs recording tool by Wikimedians
World Atlas of Language Structures
database of language structures
Proteopedia
Proteopedia is a wiki, 3D encyclopedia of proteins and other molecules.
The Freesound Project
Freesound is a collaborative repository of Creative Commons licensed audio samples, and non-profit organisation, with more than 500,000 sounds and effects (as of May 2021), and 8 million registered users (as of March 2019). Sounds are uploaded to the website by its users, and cover a wide range of subjects, from field recordings to synthesised sounds. Audio content in the repository can be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means as well as standard text-based search. Audio content in the repository is also analysed using the open-source audio analysis tool Essentia, which powers the similarity
Mushroom Observer
website
Open Mind Common Sense
Artificial intelligence project
GRID
database of educational and research organizations
Research Organisation Registry
community-led database of research organizations maintained by the ROR community
Home of the Underdogs
abandonware archive
#NEWPALMYRA
thumb|Temple of Bel rendering NEWPALMYRA (also known as the New Palmyra Project) is an effort to reconstruct the ancient city of Palmyra as an immersive virtual environment, based on archaeological and other clues. The project was started from photos taken by Bassel Khartabil, who had been taking care of Palmyra since 2005. He began building 3D models of the ancient city, with support from Al Aous Publishers. In 2012, Khartabil was arrested by the Assad regime, and the original project and open source files were lost. Barry Threw took over as director of the project, renamed it #NEWPALMYRA, br
YAGO
knowledge base