Digital Universe

Digital Universe was a free online information service founded in 2006. The project aimed to create a "network of portals designed to provide high-quality information and services to the public". Subject matter experts were to have been responsible for reviewing and approving content; contributors were to have been both experts (researchers, scholars, educators) and the public.

This article is about the internet portal. For the software planetarium, see Digital Universe Atlas. For the electronic medium of computer networks, see Cyberspace. For the Computational theory of the Universe, see Digital physics.
Digital Universe
Type of site
Internet portal
Available inEnglish
HeadquartersScotts Valley, California
OwnerDigital Universe Foundation
URLwww.digitaluniverse.net
Commercialno
RegistrationOptional

The project was founded in 2005 by Joe Firmage, CEO of ManyOne, with Bernard Haisch as the president. It launched in early 2006. Larry Sanger was a director, and helped with the launch of the project's Encyclopedia of Earth. Sanger left in late 2006 to launch Citizendium. As of 2019, the website was nonfunctional.

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