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- 12About the libraryWhy it is called a cold library, and the log.
- 11House Rules & LedgerWhat we will never do, and every cost.
- 10LibrariansWho keeps this place. A card in one minute.
- 9WardensThe AI at each door, and its trial.
- 8ExhibitsPerpetual exhibits for projects and life works.
- 7PlaquesPerpetual plaques for people, living or not.
- 6MemorialExhibits, plaques and lamps for the makers.
- 5Collection DeskSomeone left you something? Start here.
- 4Front DeskHang your own exhibit or plaque.
- 3Record RoomAlbums from every continent, rated.
- 2CatalogueBooks rated without their text: scripture, history, beauty, novels.
- 1AReference RoomOpen texts, data, typefaces and tools on GitHub.
- 1Open StacksReal works anyone may read, copy and keep.
- MChartsEverything ranked within its kind.
- LLobbyWhere everyone comes in from the cold.
- B1Sealed layerThings kept for later, sealed offline.
- B2Cold VaultCrypto assets in your own contract. Testnet only.
- chinese-poetry Classical Chinese poetry as JSON: Tang and Song shi, Song ci, Yuan qu, the Shijing, the Chuci and the Analects.
- daizhigev20 Plain-text dump of the Daizhige collection of premodern Chinese writings: classics, histories, Buddhist and Daoist canons, poetry.
- canonical-greekLit TEI XML editions of ancient Greek literature from the Perseus Digital Library, with canonical citation identifiers.
- ELTeC-eng English part of the European Literary Text Collection: novels first published 1840–1920, encoded in TEI XML.
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- xml-p5 CBETA's digital Chinese Buddhist canon in TEI P5 XML, the source files behind its readers.
- sc-data Pali and other early Buddhist scriptures with translations and the parallels tables that link them across canons.
- Sefaria-Export Full dump of the Sefaria library: Jewish texts, translations and the links between them, as JSON, CSV and text.
- macula-hebrew Word-by-word grammatical analysis of the Hebrew Bible: morphology, syntax trees and further linguistic layers.
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- historical-basemaps Georeferenced outlines of world countries and cultural regions across many periods, for mapping historical data.
- pleiades.datasets Downloadable exports of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places, in several formats.
- idp.data Texts, translations and metadata of ancient papyri in EpiDoc XML, the data behind papyri.info.
- congress-legislators Every member of the US Congress since 1789, plus committees, presidents and vice presidents, in YAML, JSON and CSV.
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- openaccess The Met's open-access object records in one CSV: titles, makers, dates and public-domain status.
- collection Catalogue records for MoMA's artworks and artists as CSV and JSON, released under CC0.
- LxgwWenKai Open-source Chinese kaishu-style typeface derived from Klee One, suited to reading and body text.
- makemeahanzi Open stroke-order vector data, component decompositions and etymology notes for common Chinese characters.
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- musicbrainz-server Server behind MusicBrainz, the open database of artists, releases and recordings, including its web API.
- Lieder Transcribed scores of public-domain art songs (Lieder), released as CC0 data.
- TheSession-data Regular data dumps from thesession.org: Irish traditional tunes in ABC notation, sessions and recordings.
- music21 Python toolkit for computational musicology that parses, analyses and transforms scores, with a bundled corpus.
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- tesseract Open-source OCR engine that turns scanned page images into searchable text in many languages.
- OpenCC Converts between Traditional and Simplified Chinese by character and phrase, with Taiwan and Hong Kong variants.
- kraken OCR and handwriting recognition engine with layout analysis, trainable for historical and non-Latin scripts.
- mirador IIIF image viewer for comparing and annotating digitized manuscripts and artworks side by side.
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