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"name": "MetaBrainz Foundation Inc",
"email": "[email protected]",
"phone": "001-805-459-0815",
"description": "The MetaBrainz Foundation is a global community creating and maintaining an open encyclopedia of music and arts metadata. Beginning as a resource for music collectors we currently establish collaborations between volunteers, artists, and industry leaders. Since its founding it has grown into a global community of hundreds of thousands of editors collaborating together to build and maintain the comprehensive MetaBrainz datasets.\nThe foundation works within a balanced ecosystem of contributions to the datasets and community and the utilization of the datasets. We encourage all data supporters to participate in the data gathering, editing and peer review processes so that our data can be as comprehensive as possible. Each entity is assigned a permanent MBID (MusicBrainz Identifier) in order to facilitate the creation of a reliable and unambiguous universal lingua franca for music data. MBIDs have opened the possibility of boundless search queries, exceeding the seven traditional identifiers for music data and truly putting knowledge at one's fingertips. Our community aggregated datasets are verified and edited by a global voting system to ensure the data is consistent and correct. We collect information about as many different styles and types of arts and music as possible and do not discriminate when compiling data.\nThe foundation was founded in 2004 by Robert Kaye, in San Luis Obispo, California and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit. Commercial supporters are asked to contribute financially in order to help fund our family of projects, and give back to our community to keep our ecosystem healthy. Non-commercial use of our data remains free, and we are committed to keeping it free to utilize. We are also supported by donations and a number of sponsors who provide funds in order for the foundation to continue to accomplish various project goals. The MetaBrainz Foundation believes in transparent finances, which are published quarterly.",
"description": "The MetaBrainz Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating and maintaining open data projects that provide reliable, structured metadata for various forms of media. Established in 2004 by Robert Kaye, MetaBrainz seeks to build free and accessible knowledge repositories while fostering collaboration within an open community. The foundation operates under an open data and open-source ethos, which means its data and tools are freely available for public use, distribution, and modification. This openness encourages developers, researchers, and organizations to contribute and create derivative projects, ultimately enriching the ecosystem around open media metadata.\nAmong the primary projects under MetaBrainz is MusicBrainz, an extensive music database offering metadata on artists, albums, tracks, and release information. Created in response to the proprietary nature of early music metadata services, MusicBrainz empowers users to contribute to and curate an accurate, user-driven music knowledge base. With applications ranging from digital music libraries to tagging software like Picard, MusicBrainz has become a foundational resource for music metadata, attracting contributions from users, as well as support from major companies like Google and the BBC.\nAnother notable project, ListenBrainz, focuses on tracking music listening habits. Inspired by projects like Last.fm, ListenBrainz records and analyzes listening data from users who can share this information to explore trends, recommendations, and personal analytics. As with other MetaBrainz projects, ListenBrainz data is open and accessible, allowing researchers and developers to build upon this data for music recommendations, research, and social features.\nBookBrainz, the foundation’s third major project, is an open database for book metadata, following a similar structure to MusicBrainz but tailored for literature. BookBrainz aims to catalog authors, works, editions, and other entities in the literary world. This data is freely accessible, making it an invaluable resource for libraries, researchers, and readers who want a comprehensive, community-driven book database.\nMetaBrainz Foundation’s commitment to open-source software is integral to its mission. All software it develops, including the tools, APIs, and data structures, is released under open-source licenses. This transparency ensures the data remains free for everyone, regardless of commercial or non-commercial use, while encouraging innovation and contributions from a global user base.\nMetaBrainz is primarily funded through partnerships and sponsorships, relying on support from institutions like Internet Archive and donations from its user community. This structure allows MetaBrainz to remain independent and committed to its mission of providing high-quality, freely available data to benefit both users and the digital information landscape.",
"webpageUrl": {
"url": "https://metabrainz.org/about"
}
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