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Life & fun · February 8, 2016

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Liber Brunoniana – Hacking a Better Encyclopedia

Liber Brunoniana – Hacking a Better Encyclopedia launched on February 8, 2016 with 23 votes, #1,890 of 4,386 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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Liber Brunoniana transforms Martha Mitchell's 1993 Encyclopedia Brunoniana into a searchable digital resource using natural language processing. The project automatically creates over 5,000 hyperlinks between articles, organizes content into categories, and generates year-by-year event pages. Researchers and Brown University community members can browse the encyclopedia through its complete article index or by topic, making Brown's institutional history more accessible and interconnected than the original printed reference work.

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Since its publication in 1993, Martha Mitchell's 629 page Encyclopedia Brunoniana has served as the definitive reference work of Brown University's history. The Liber Brunoniana project utilizes natural language processing techniques to transform Mitchell's text into hypertext, automatically inferring over 5,000 hyperlinks between articles, deliminating content into categories, and constructing pages detailing the events of each year mentioned in the encyclopedia. The encyclopedia may be browsed from its complete index of articles , or by topic. For more information about the creation of Liber Brunoniana , see the Liber Brunoniana pagefrom liber-brunoniana.github.io

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