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Anna's Archive
Open shadow library and digital preservation project indexing books, papers, and media
Anna's Archive is a non-profit search engine and shadow library dedicated to preserving human knowledge and culture. It aggregates mirrors of scientific papers, books, and public metadata, offering massive bulk torrent releases for distributed archival storage. It notably made headlines for publishing a ~300TB preservation archive of Spotify's music track catalog and metadata.
What it's for
- Download bulk torrents of mirrored cultural and academic collections for long-term preservation
- Access metadata and media files for large-scale datasets and archival research
- Search across multiple shadow libraries and scientific paper repositories simultaneously
Features
- Meta-search engine indexing major open and shadow libraries
- Bulk torrent distribution for decentralized file preservation
- Open metadata releases covering millions of books, papers, and audio files
- Non-profit, community-driven digital preservation model
Pricing
Free to access and download via torrents
Details
- Type
- Website
- Category
- Other
- Topic
- Digital Archiving
- Open source
- Yes
- Platforms
- Web
- For
- Digital archivists, data hoarders, researchers, and media preservationists
- Alternative to
- Library Genesis, Sci-Hub, Internet Archive
- Tags
- archiving, preservation, torrents, shadow library, datasets
Why it was saved
- @askgpts: Provides a 300TB preservation backup of Spotify's catalog (86 million audio tracks representing ~99.6% of streams and metadata for 256 million tracks) via open torrents.
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