About Atlas

Atlas is a structured, traceable database of researchers, their publications, affiliations, conference participation, and academic service — who served on which committees, in what roles, for how long, and how the conferences themselves changed over time.

Provenance and evidence

Every fact in Atlas is traceable to a source. Corrections and additions go through a moderated review process before they reach canonical data, and every accepted change keeps a permanent revision history — nothing is silently overwritten.

Data sources

Atlas is built from both automatically imported records (DBLP, ORCID, ROR, Wikidata, OpenAlex, Crossref) and community-contributed corrections, each evidence-gated before reaching canonical data.

Licensing

All public metadata Atlas produces and curates is released under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication — matching Wikidata's own choice, since research infrastructure like this is more useful the fewer restrictions sit on top of it. A small, genuinely restricted subset (e.g. conference budget figures) is the deliberate exception, not a loophole in that rule.

Privacy

Atlas collects only publicly verifiable professional and scholarly information about living individuals, via an explicit whitelist — not everything technically discoverable online. Anyone can request a correction, or ask that a profile be suppressed from public view.