Open Knowledge Fund
General and major support for the open-knowledge infrastructure that makes the field's reference base public — open data, the research library, multilingual access, API infrastructure, and educational curriculum.
A fund for open-knowledge infrastructure
General and major gifts to this fund support the infrastructure of open knowledge: open data, the research library, multilingual access, the public API, and educational curriculum. They fund infrastructure and education only. They do not fund — and the program makes — any treatment, clinical-efficacy, or patient-outcome claim. The American Society of Hirudotherapy is a nonprofit medical-education society; clinical conclusions belong to the trials and clinicians we catalogue, not to us.
What your donation funds
General and major giving keeps the open-knowledge infrastructure running — open data, the library, translations, the public API, and curriculum.
Open data infrastructure
Building and maintaining the public JSON endpoints that expose the Society's registries — site statistics, the research-article library, conditions, compounds, and more — as free, CDN-cached open data.
The research library
Cataloguing, organizing, and maintaining the open research library so that published sources stay findable, current, and consistently described.
Multilingual access
Translating reference and educational material across locales so that more readers can reach the same open information in a language they understand.
API infrastructure
Operating the versionless public API surface that lets researchers, dashboards, and external knowledge integrations read the registries programmatically.
Educational curriculum
Developing open educational curriculum and reference materials that explain the field for students, clinicians, and the public — as education, not medical advice.
Editorial maintenance
The ongoing review, correction, and upkeep that keeps the open knowledge base accurate, dated, and auditable over time.
What this fund explicitly does NOT support
- Any claim of clinical efficacy, treatment outcome, or cure.
- Statements that hirudotherapy treats, prevents, or improves any condition.
- Patient-facing medical advice or recommendations of any kind.
- Treatment, patient care, devices, or procedures of any kind.
- Marketing of products, procedures, or providers.
Why it matters
Open knowledge does not maintain itself. The research library has to be catalogued and kept current; identifiers have to stay resolvable; the public API has to keep serving; translations have to be produced and reviewed; and the educational curriculum has to be written and updated. Each of those is operational work, and each is what general and major giving to this fund pays for.
Framing this honestly matters. This fund is measured by operational outputs — articles verified, pages reviewed, translations published, open datasets exposed — and never by clinical outcomes. We do not claim that funding this infrastructure treats, cures, or improves any condition. We claim only that it keeps the open reference base accurate, multilingual, and publicly available.
The open-knowledge surfaces this fund sustains
Each of these is public today. Giving keeps them maintained and growing.
Open data & public API
Free, CDN-cached JSON endpoints expose the registries with no API key required. See the Open Data reference for the full endpoint list.
Research library
A catalogued, source-linked library of published research. Browse the research base and the reader’s library.
Multilingual access
Reference and educational material is translated across locales so that more readers can reach the same open information in their own language.
Educational curriculum
Open educational material that explains the field for students, clinicians, and the public — published as education, not medical advice.
The kinds of outputs this fund reports
These are the categories of operational output the fund tracks — not clinical results.
Illustrative figures only — not exact facts
The numbers below are illustrative placeholders shown to explain the kinds of operational outputs this fund reports. They are not audited totals and must not be cited as exact figures. Current verified counts and the correction history are maintained on the live governance dashboard and corrections log.
1,000+
illustrative
Articles verified in the library
Identifiers resolved against their canonical source records
hundreds
illustrative
Pages reviewed and maintained
Reference pages kept current under the editorial policy
multiple locales
illustrative
Translations published
Reference material translated for multilingual access
8 endpoints
illustrative
Open datasets exposed
Public JSON endpoints served with no API key required
How we keep this honest
Infrastructure use
Gifts to this fund are applied to open-knowledge infrastructure and education. We report on operational outputs (articles verified, pages reviewed, translations published, open datasets exposed), never on clinical outcomes.
Auditable record
Source records carry their status, and corrections are dated and logged, so any partner can review what changed and when. See our transparency and trust commitments.
Support the Open Knowledge Fund
Make a general or major gift to open knowledge
To make a general or major gift toward open-knowledge infrastructure, start from the Society’s giving page and designate the Open Knowledge Fund, or contact us directly to discuss a major gift.