Golden is a proprietary

knowledge base A knowledge base (KB) is a technology used to store complex structured and unstructured information used by a computer system. The initial use of the term was in connection with expert systems, which were the first knowledge-based systems. ...

and

online encyclopedia An online encyclopedia, also called an Internet encyclopedia, or a digital encyclopedia, is an encyclopedia accessible through the internet. Examples include Wikipedia and ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Digitization of old content In January 199 ...

that combines elements of a wiki encyclopedia and

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, operated by the American company Golden Recursion Inc. Its founders state that much of the

information Information is an abstract concept that refers to that which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level information pertains to the interpretation of that which may be sensed. Any natural process that is not completely random ...

in it is generated from public databases and using

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techniques. It positions itself as an alternative to

Wikipedia Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read refer ...

that avoids the problem of Wikipedia's "arbitrary notability threshold". Marc Andreessen is a member of the company's board.

Founding source

In 2016, founder Jude Gomila sold Heyzap and started thinking about what he could do in the future to create social value. In the process, Jude found herself doing interest research with a lack of organization in existing human knowledge, and this was more evident in emerging technologies, new startups, and creative ideas. People generally search for information through Google, Wikipedia, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Quora, StackExchange, Github and other channels, but the network information needs to be combined in the form of academic papers, documentaries, videos, podcasts, extended readings, guides and metadata. There are also better technologies today, such as artificial intelligence systems, fully automated and unsupervised language writing systems, WYSIWYG editors, cheap cloud storage/processing, automated spelling/grammar checking techniques, graph databases, and tools like Github's collaboration system provides good technical resources for establishing Golden.

References

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