OpenContentRepositories are repositories of OpenContent which can be reused by third parties. Ideally content should be clearly licensed, easy to find and of high quality. Repositories often use full text searching, folksomonies and user-created links to aid finding of content and ranking or collaborative filtering to sort the content by quality. Full text searching, folksonomies and collaborative filtering scale very well, up to millions of items, and are seen as very desirable for large repositories.
Open content repositories include:
- General content:
Wikipedia/Wikimedia a family of wikis, GFDL
Authorama open source books Creative Commons
Books (Japanese language)
- Explicitly educational content
- Music / Audio content:
Oyez Archive Supreme Court oral arguments Creative Commons
OpSound music Creative Commons
- Image content:
Buzznet photo archive and journal Creative Commons
Flickr photo archive Creative Commons
Free Images (French language) Free Art License
- Meta content
Open Directory Project holds records for millions of websites Open Directory License
Bitcollider Peer ranking of arbitrary files Creative Commons
Legal bittorrent sites from the Azureus wiki, various licences, mainly Creative Commons
If you know of any other large open content repositories with clear licences, many active contributors, feel free to add them.
See also: OpenContent, Wikipedia list of open content projects.
