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About — Who Built the Babel Nexus Index, and Why

What the Babel Nexus Index is and who made it: a federated discovery index for 820 public-domain works across 53 hexagonal galleries, structuring human knowledge as a navigable place in the lineage of Borges’s Library of Babel, Wells’s World Brain, and Vannevar Bush’s Memex. Designed and built by collection-development librarian Nishan Stepak.