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diff --git a/python/fatcat_web/templates/about.html b/python/fatcat_web/templates/about.html index d22ab5c9..084470a4 100644 --- a/python/fatcat_web/templates/about.html +++ b/python/fatcat_web/templates/about.html @@ -3,72 +3,72 @@ <h1>About Fatcat</h1> -<p>Fatcat is versioned, public-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 +<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, institutional and other repositories, and the public web. +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 the <b><a -href="mailto:info@archive.org">info@archive.org</a></b> email address. +<p>Feedback and queries can be directed to +<b><a href="mailto:info@archive.org">info@archive.org</a></b>. <h3>Goals and Features</h3> -<p>A few things set fatcat apart from similar indexing and discovery services: +<p>A few things set Fatcat apart from similar indexing and discovery services: <ul> - <li>inclusion of archival file-level metadata (content digests) in addition + <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 archival web - captures and datasets, as well as content stored on the distributed web - <li>data model that captures the work/edition (aka, "release") distinction, + <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>public editing interface, allowing metadata corrections and improvements + <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 reduce the risks of centralized control + 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> (in terms of -access) 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 (particularly -curation; this service is "universal" and happily includes retracted and -"predatory" content), and is not intended to be used for <i>evaluation</i> of -individuals, institutions, or venues. +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 progeny of all fields to be reconstructed. A few +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> (a major non-profit DOI registrar), via their public + <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 fulltext content from NIH <b>Pubmed</b> (a US national repository) and <b><a href="https://arxiv.org">arXiv.org</a></b> (a large pre-print repository hosted at Cornell University) - <li>Release metadata and linked public domain fulltext content the <b>JSTOR</b> Early Journal Content collection - <li>Creator (author) names and de-duplication from <b>ORCID</b> (an author identifier service), via their annual public data releases + <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>The <a href="https://guide.{{ config.FATCAT_DOMAIN }}/sources.html">guide</a> lists more major sources + <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 @@ -78,24 +78,24 @@ 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 it's +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 fulltext content is stored on the +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 +<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 both by tracking which open access works are not -getting preserved in any known archive, and providing minimum-viable indexing -and access mechanisms for long-tail works which otherwise would lack them. +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 (but see the source code for full +<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, @@ -104,9 +104,9 @@ 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 licensed. The name "fat cat" can be interpreted as short for -"large catalog", as the service aspires to be a <i>universal</i> (complete) -catalog of the digital scholarly record. +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! |