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Acknowledgements & Sources
SuperFutures draws on a number of open data providers, reference sources, and infrastructure projects to build and serve the atlas. The organisations and communities below are the reason this catalogue can grow quickly and stay grounded.
Data providers
APIs SuperFutures calls directly to enrich scenarios, people, works, and organisations.
The Movie Database (TMDB)
Film and television metadata - release years, cast & crew, posters, external identifiers, and YouTube trailer keys - used to describe cinematic references across the atlas.
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Songlink (Odesli)
Cross-platform music links used by the admin music autofill. Given a URL to a track on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube Music, Songlink returns the equivalents on the other major platforms so the atlas can offer readers a “Listen on…” picker rather than a single-platform link.
Songlink / song.link is a service by Odesli. When their public API is unavailable, the app falls back to iTunes-only enrichment.
iTunes Search / Lookup API
Free lookup API for track metadata, cover art, 30-second previews, and canonical Apple Music track URLs. Used both as the primary music-preview source and as the Songlink fallback.
iTunes and Apple Music are trademarks of Apple Inc. SuperFutures is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apple.
YouTube
Two roles: (1) TMDB-supplied trailer video ids are embedded via youtube-nocookie.com on Work pages; (2) editors can attach a canonical YouTube video URL to Person, Organisation, or Work entities, which the entity page then embeds. All embeds use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced player.
YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC. Embedded videos are hosted by YouTube and governed by their terms of service and privacy policy.
Anthropic Claude API
LLM-assisted extraction of secondary entities (people, organisations, works, concepts) from source text, deduplication of near-duplicate proposals, and enrichment of biographical / descriptive fields where they are empty. Nothing enters the live graph without a human editor’s review. Where AI has proposed field values, the affected records carry a metadata.enrichment_source = “LLM-Assisted” flag so the provenance is legible.
Model calls are made to the Anthropic API (Claude 4.5 Haiku by default). See How to read a scenario for how factual, editorial, speculative, and illustrative material are separated on scenario pages.
Reference sources
Encyclopaedic and archival sources the atlas links out to. No API calls - editors record canonical URLs on entities, and entity pages surface them as external references.
Person, Organisation, and Work entities carry an optional canonical Wikipedia URL, surfaced on the entity page as an external reference. Content on Wikipedia is contributed by its volunteer community and made available under the CC BY-SA licence.
Papers referenced from scenarios (Work entities with work_type “paper”) store their canonical URL - typically an arXiv abstract page, a publisher DOI, or an author-hosted PDF - alongside a DOI field. arXiv is a free distribution service and open-access archive operated by Cornell Tech.
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) recorded on Work entities of type “paper” are resolved via doi.org, which routes to the publisher’s canonical landing page. Crossref maintains the underlying registry infrastructure.
Editors occasionally consult Wikidata to disambiguate people and organisations before attaching Wikipedia URLs. Wikidata content is CC0-licensed.
Thank you
To the maintainers, contributors, and communities behind these projects - SuperFutures wouldn’t be possible without your work. If you notice missing or incorrect attribution here, please write to info@dari.earth.
See also the Privacy Notice for what personal data is collected and how it is processed, and About SuperFutures for who is behind the project.