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Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media.

Openverse is a powerful search engine for GPL-compatible images, audio, andmore. Openverse is live atopenverse.org.

• Catalog | The Apache Airflow-powered system for downloading andstoring Openverse's metadata
• Ingestion server | The mechanism for refreshing the datafrom the catalog to the API
• API | The Django REST API for querying the database, used by thefrontend
• Frontend | The public search engine atopenverse.org, built with Vue and Nuxt
• Automations | Scripts used for various workflows aroundOpenverse repositories and processes
• Utilities | Scripts or utilities which are useful acrossmultiple projects or don't necessarily fit into a specific project.

This repository also contains the following directories.

• Brand | Brand assets for Openverse such as logo and icon andguidelines for using these assets
• Templates | Jinja templates that can be rendered into commonscaffolding code for the project

You can keep in touch with the project via the following channels:

• GitHub
  • Issues
  • PRs
  • Discussions
  • Project Board
• Community Site
• #openverse channel in theMaking WordPress Chat
  • Weekly Development Chat (Mondays @ 15:00 UTC)
  • Monthly Prioritisation Meeting (first Wednesday of every month @ 15:00 UTC)

To use the Openverse API, please refer to theAPI consumer documentation.

Pull requests are welcome! Feel free tojoin us on Slack and discuss the projectwith the engineers and community members on #openverse.

You are welcome to take any open issue in the tracker labelledhelp wanted orgood first issue;there's no need to ask for permission in advance. Other issues are open forcontribution as well, but may be less accessible or well-defined in comparisonto those that are explicitly labelled.

See thecontribution guide fordetails.

Openverse, previously known as CC Search, was conceived and built atCreative Commons. We thank them for theircommitment to open source and openly licensed content, with particular thanks toprevious team members @ryanmerkley, @janetpkr, @lizadaly, @sebworks, @pa-w,@kgodey, @annatuma, @mathemancer, @aldenstpage, @brenoferreira, and @sclachar,along with theircommunity of volunteers.

We would also like to thank our former maintainers @AetherUnbound,@sarayourfriend, @stacimc and @zackkrida for their invaluable contributions toOpenverse, which have shaped the project and made it what it is today.