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-{% extends "base.html" %}
-
-{% block title %}About{% endblock %}
-
-{% block body %}
-
-{# <img class="ui fluid bordered image" src="/static/fatcat.jpg" title="CC0 photo of an oversized feline" alt=""> #}
-
-<h1></h1>
-
-<p>Fatcat is versioned, publicly-editable catalog of research publications:
-journal articles, conference proceedings, pre-prints, blog posts, and so forth.
-The goal is to improve the state of preservation and access to these works by
-providing a manifest of full-text content versions and locations.
-
-<p>This service does not directly contain full-text content itself, but
-provides basic access for human and machine readers through links to copies in
-web archives, repositories, and the public web.
-
-<p>Significantly more context and background information can be found in <a
-href="https://guide.{{ config.FATCAT_DOMAIN }}/">The Guide</a>.
-
-<p>Feedback and queries can be directed to
-<b><a href="mailto:webservices@archive.org">webservices@archive.org</a></b>.
-
-<h3>Goals and Features</h3>
-
-<p>A few things set Fatcat apart from similar indexing and discovery services:
-
-<ul>
- <li>inclusion of archival, <b>file-level metadata (hashes)</b> in addition
- to URLs, which allows automated verification ("do I have the right copy"),
- reveals content-drift over time, and enables efficient distribution of
- content through the ecosystem
- <li>native support for "post-PDF" digital media, including <b>archival web
- captures and datasets</b>, as well as content stored on the distributed web
- <li>data model that captures the <b>work/edition distinction</b>,
- grouping pre-print, post-review, published, re-published, and updated
- versions of a work together
- <li><b>public editing</b> interface, allowing metadata corrections and improvements
- from individuals and bots in addition to automated imports from authoritative
- sources
- <li>focus on providing a stable API and corpus (making integration with
- diverse user-facing applications simple), while enabling full replication and
- mirroring of the corpus to <b>reduce the risks of centralized control</b>
-</ul>
-
-<p>This service aspires to be a piece of sustainable, long-term, non-profit,
-free-software, collaborative, open digital infrastructure. It is primarily
-designed to support the <i>archival</i> and <i>dissemination</i> roles of
-scholarly communication. It may also support the <i>registration</i> role
-(establishing precedence and authorship), but explicitly does not aid with
-<i>certification</i> of content, and is not intended to be used for
-<i>evaluation</i> of individuals, institutions, or venues. This service is
-"universal", not currated, and happily includes retracted and "predatory"
-content).
-
-<h3>Sources of Metadata</h3>
-
-The source of all bibliographic information is recorded in edit history
-metadata, which allows the provenance of all records to be reconstructed. A few
-major sources are worth highlighting here:
-
-<ul>
- <li>Release metadata from <b>Crossref</b>, via their public
- <a href="https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc">REST API</a>
- <li>Release metadata and linked full-text content from NIH <b>Pubmed</b> and <b><a href="https://arxiv.org">arXiv.org</a></b>
- <li>Release metadata and linked public domain full-text content the <b>JSTOR</b> Early Journal Content collection
- <li>Creator names and de-duplication from <b>ORCID</b>, via their annual public data releases
- <li>Journal title metadata from <b>DOAJ</b>, <b>ISSN ROAD</b>, and <b>SHERPA/RoMEO</b>
- <li>Full-text URL lists from <b><a href="https://core.ac.uk">CORE</a></b>,
- <b><a href="http://unpaywall.org">Unpaywall</a></b>,
- <b><a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org">Semantic Scholar</a></b>,
- <b><a href="https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu">CiteseerX</a></b>,
- and <b><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/academic">Microsoft Academic Graph</a></b>.
- <li><a href="https://guide.{{ config.FATCAT_DOMAIN }}/sources.html">The Guide</a> lists more major sources
-</ul>
-
-Many thanks for the hard work of all these projects, institutions, and
-individuals!
-
-
-<h3>Support and Acknowledgments</h3>
-
-<p>Fatcat is a project of the <b><a href="https://archive.org">Internet Archive</a></b>,
-a US-based non-profit digital library, well known for its
-<a href="https://web.archive.org">Wayback Machine</a> web archive and
-<a href="https://openlibrary.org">Open Library</a> book digitization and
-lending service. All Fatcat databases and services run on Internet Archive
-servers in California, and a copy of most full-text content is stored in the
-Archive's collections and/or web archives.
-
-<p>Development of Fatcat and related web harvesting, indexing, and preservation
-efforts at the Archive have been partially funded (for the 2018-2019 period) by
-a generous grant from the <b>Mellon Foundation</b>
-(<a href="https://blog.archive.org/2018/03/05/andrew-w-mellon-foundation-awards-grant-to-the-internet-archive-for-long-tail-journal-preservation/">"Long-tail Open Access Journal Preservation"</a>).
-Fatcat supports this work by both tracking which open access works in known
-archives and providing minimum-viable indexing and access mechanisms for
-long-tail works which otherwise would lack them.
-
-<p>The service would not technically be possible without hundreds of Free
-Software components and the efforts of their individual and organizational
-maintainers, more than can be listed here (please see the source code for full
-lists). A few major components include the PostgreSQL database, Elasticsearch
-search engine, Flask python web framework, Rust programming language, Diesel
-database library, Swagger/OpenAPI code generators, Kafka distributed log,
-Ansible configuration management tool, and Ubuntu GNU/Linux operating system
-distribution.
-
-<p>The front-page photo of a large feline with a cup of coffee is by
-<a href="http://www.kampschroer.com/photography.html">Quinn Kampschroer</a>,
-under a CC-0 license. The name "Fatcat" can be interpreted as short for "large
-catalog", as the service aspires to be a <i>complete</i> catalog of the digital
-scholarly record.
-
-<p>A list of technical contributors, including volunteers, is maintained in the
-source code repository (<code>CONTRIBUTORS.md</code>). Thanks everybody!
-
-{% endblock %}