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diff --git a/fatcat_scholar/templates/about.html b/fatcat_scholar/templates/about.html index ad984ce..59a01ea 100644 --- a/fatcat_scholar/templates/about.html +++ b/fatcat_scholar/templates/about.html @@ -1,7 +1,61 @@ {% extends "base.html" %} {% block main %} -<h1>Some About Content</h1> +<h1>About Scholarly Search</h1> +<p><i>See also: <a href="{{ lang_prefix }}/help">User Guide</a> which lists +some bugs and known issues</i> + +<a name="howitworks"></a> +<h3>How It Works</h3> + +<p>Content in this search index comes from preservation copies at the Internet +Archive in one of three forms: + +<ul> + <li><b>public web content</b> in the Wayback Machine web archives + (web.archive.org), either identified from historic collecting, crawled + specifically to ensure long-term access to scholarly materials, or crawled at + the direction of our Archive-It partners + <li><b>digitized print material</b> from paper and microform collections + purchased and scanned by Internet Archive or our partners + <li><b>general materials</b> on the archive.org collections, including + content from partner organizations, uploads from the general public, and + mirrors of other projects +</ul> + +<p>This <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PARqfbYIdXQ">2019 FORCE11 +conference presentation</a> gives an overview of the technical infrastructure +and goals of the project overall. + +<a name="sources"></a> +<h3>Content Sources</h3> + +<p>Metadata comes from <a href="https://fatcat.wiki">fatcat.wiki</a>, an open +user-editable catalog of scholarly work. It should be possible to track and +attribute the provenance of content and metadata in all cases; please contact +us if you have questions or concenrs. + +<a name="tdm"></a> +<h3>Text and Data Mining</h3> + +<p>We intend to provide researcher access to the full corpus for text and data +mining purposes. Derived datasets may also be posted publicly for analysis, for +example a citation graph or N-gram frequencies by year. If you are interested +or would like to see specific datasets made available, please contact us. + +<p>Currently snapshots of the full fatcat metadata corpus and upstream metadata +sources are uploaded periodically to the +<a href="https://archive.org/details/ia_biblio_metadata">Bulk Bibliographic +Metadata</a> collection on archive.org. +Read more in <a href="https://guide.fatcat.wiki/bulk_exports.html">the Fatcat Guide</a>. + +<a name="contact"></a> +<h3>Contact Information</h3> + +<p>The organizational contact information for The Internet Archive is listed at +<a href="https://archive.org/about/contact.php">https://archive.org/about/contact.php</a>. +Queries about this search service and the fatcat catalog can be directed to +<a href="mailto:webservices@archive.org">webservices@archive.org</a>. + -<p>Lorem ipsum {% endblock %} |