WorldBrain (Re)Search Engine

Welcome to the WorldBrain project. We want to work on the goal of an increased (scientific) literacy in our global society through a better information quality on the internet.

WorldBrain is an open-source project that aims to battle (scientific) misinformation by developing open source search tools for professional web-researchers like science communicators, STEM students, journalists and librarians and online debaters to find, rate and share qualitative and trustworthy web content/notes with their friends, followers and the public. (Watch the 3.5 min Vision Video)

Our first software, The (Re)search engine, is an open-source search engine for a user’s digital knowledge. It lets them full-text search all the pages they visited and bookmarked, as well as other places like Evernote, Pocket, Google Drive, Asana, Mendeley etc. (Watch 2 min Intro Video)

Table of Content

Status & Development Roadmap

Here you find the long term roadmap.

Current Stage

In it's current stage, the chrome extension lets you full-text search all the web pages and PDFs you visited and bookmarked.

Features

full-text search history & bookmarks
import existing history and bookmarks
blacklisting urls, domains
supports PDFs you visited online

Under Development

We are currently working on replacing the DB with PouchDB and the default search implementation with PouchDB Quick Search

View all "UNDER DEVELOPMENT" issues

Up next

Web-view for results and more filter options.

Currently the results can only be shown in the drop down of the adress bar and filters only applied by entering queries.

To change that, we are adding a web-based results and filter view (much like a google results page), where all results can be shown and a variety of filters applied.

More info in our projects section

How to get involved

If you are JAVASCRIPT DEVELOPER you can check out our current projects and open tasks
Into DECENTRALISATION? You can join our discussion about decentralising our server infrastructure.
Wanna help with MARKETING? Contact Oliver via email: [email protected]
Wanna help us with MONEYYYZ? Wohoo! You can do so by supporting us on Patreon

How to use the extension

You can watch our "How to use the Research-Engine" Demo Video (2min)

or for a more detailed description, visit the text-based tutorial.

FAQ

You can reach our FAQ here: reddit.com*/r/*WorldBrain

Installation

AS A USER

Install from the Chrome store here. (If you don't feel comfortable with that, look at Transparent Installation).

Transparent Installation

If you don't feel comfortable installing a Chrome extension that can read and modify all data on the websites you visit from the webstore (we wouldn't either!), you can clone this repository on your local machine, read through our code to verify that it is not malicious, and then install it as an unpacked local extension through the menu in chrome://extensions/. But this way you also won't receive any updates.

AS A DEVELOPER

Fork the project, then...

Prerequisites

Install browserify and watchify with npm install -g browserify
Run npm install to install dependencies

While Developing

npm run watch

Build

npm run build

Activate & Test the plugin on your browser

In Chrome

go to chrome://extensions/
Activate Developer Mode (top right)
Click load unpacked extension (top left)
Select the /build folder from the project

How to get in touch with us

via Email: [email protected]
Request Slack Invitation: http://worldbrain.slack.com

Acknowledgements

This tool is originally released under the name "Falcon" and will be further developed to fit the needs of the scientific research community. The original programmers are @andrewilyas and @lengstrom.

License

Currently the (Re)search-Engine is released under GPL-3, as this has been the license of Falcon. We aim to release it under a more liberal license as soon as we have replaced all the code from the original Falcon tool.

Our goal is to provide a set of reusable libraries, so that this client can be adapted to as many work-flows as possible.

bradparks / research-engine Goto Github PK

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