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Smithsonian Open Access

Education — The Smithsonian Institution has released a vast collection of 2
Educationopen-source
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 17.8 · 2/4
17.8
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
15
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
10
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 15 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
15 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 20% of 15 probesavg response 1156 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
si.edu
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
#1,936
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Smithsonian Open Access's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 17.8 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 10 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
OldNYCeducationsimilar90%41.30.0● live
SpaceExperience.clubeducationsimilar80%8.00.0— unverified
Project Gutenbergentertainmenttag-overlap73%49.70.0● live
Photographers' Identities Catalogeducationsimilar70%49.40.0● live
Explain like I am five - ELI5.MLeducationsimilar70%8.00.0— unverified
Louvre Museum Onlineeducationsimilar70%49.50.0● live
Project REVEALeducationsimilar70%17.50.0— unverified
Beyond Curieeducationsimilar70%30.4+22.4● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelopen-source
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-26 09:57Z200si.educloudflare720alive
2026-08-18 12:51Z403si.educloudflare1021cf_block
2026-08-10 01:02Z403si.educloudflare1366cf_block
2026-08-08 05:38Z403si.educloudflare450cf_block
2026-08-05 18:01Z200si.educloudflare1292alive
2026-07-30 17:14Z200si.educloudflare304alive
2026-07-18 15:10Z403si.educloudflare823cf_block
2026-07-15 09:45Z403si.educloudflare1532cf_block
2026-07-09 10:41Z403si.educloudflare2663cf_block
2026-07-04 03:53Z403si.educloudflare3967cf_block
2026-06-21 22:10Z403si.educloudflare167cf_block
2026-06-20 20:18Z403si.educloudflare266cf_block
2026-06-19 10:19Z403si.educloudflare651cf_block
2026-06-18 01:00Z403si.educloudflare956cf_block
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Smithsonian Open Access · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/smithsonian-open-access · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.