Knowledge Standards Foundation
Project Info
Knowledge Standards Foundation
URL: https://encyclosphere.org
Description: nonprofit that shepherds the Encyclosphere
Project lead(s): Board: Larry Sanger, Tim Chambers, Christian Gribneau; lead developers: Sergei Chekanov, Henry Sanger
Biggest challenge: Create one or two orders of magnitude more encyclopedia (ZWI) files; fundraising
Date Started: fall 2019
The Knowledge Standards Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established to organize the various projects and processes needed to grow the Encyclosphere and keep it running. The Encyclosphere is an open project to crawl, make easily available (via search engines, readers, and APIs), and archive all the encyclopedias (or, for proprietary encyclopedias, metadata about them) in the world.