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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 %}