Boost creativity by cataloging the world's openly licensed media, making them easily discoverable, shareable, remixable, and attributable by anyone.
Openly licensed media is spread across a wide range of different repositories and services like social media sites (Flickr), collective knowledge bases (Wikimedia Commons), in GLAM institutional repositories, and other social enterprises. It is difficult to search these individually, even if an individual is aware of them. Each source has its own search and it is often not geared towards usage. Most do not generate attribution text. By indexing these disparate sources, and generating easy to use attribution text for individual works, Openverse makes it possible to find openly licensed media from a variety of sources in a single place. In so doing, Openverse encourages attribution and promotes the visibility of sources.
Key Achievements
Openverse is used globally. As of 2024-09-26, 876 million openly licensed images and 4 million openly licensed audio tracks were indexed and searchable on Openverse. In 2024 so far, Openverse serviced 1.7 million search requests and in the previous 12 months, 488873 users were forwarded to upstream media sources.
In the last 12 months, Openverse has shipped major user-facing features such as the collection search views (by creator, by source, by tag), and advanced sensitive content detection, which makes using Openverse safer and easier in more diverse environments. Openverse has made strides in the technical sustainability of the project by undergoing critical background infrastructure improvements, significant upgrades to core dependencies, and built more advanced moderation workflows for responding to user reports (including DMCA and sensitive content reports).
In March 2023, Openverse image search was integrated into WordPress, which powers over 40% of the web.
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