Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty

Winners of the $10,000 ISBN visualization bounty annas-archive.li/blog, 2024-02-24 A few months ago we announced a $10,000 bounty to make the best possible visualization of our data showing the ISBN space. We emphasized showing which files we have/haven’t archived already, and we later a dataset describing how many libraries hold ISBNs (a measure of rarity). We’ve been overwhelmed by the response. There has been so much creativity. A big thank you to everyone who has participated: your energy and enthusiasm are infectious! Ultimately we wanted to answer the following questions: which books exist in the world, how many have we archived already, and which books should we focus on next? It’s great to see so many people care about these questions. We started with a basic visualization ourselves. In less than 300kb, this picture succinctly represents the largest fully open “list of books” ever assembled in the history of humanity: All ISBNs [all_isbns] Files in Anna’s Archive [md5] CA ... Read full article.