Ibiblio

Infobox Website
name = ibiblio



caption =
url = [http://www.ibiblio.org/ www.ibiblio.org]
commercial = No
type = Digital library and archive
language = Multilingual, but predominately English
registration = Optional
owner = University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
author = University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Sun Microsystems
launch date = ca. 1992
current status = Online
revenue =
slogan = The public's library and digital archive
alexa = approx. 5000

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. [cite web|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/faq/?sid=1#5|title=Who are your major contributors/partners?|work=FAQ|publisher=ibiblio|accessdate=2008-06-25] 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 beFact|date=June 2008 in the public domain.

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" [ [http://www.ibiblio.org/faq/?sid=1#4 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.] ) 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."

ee 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

* List of digital library projects

References