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© 1999-2018 by
Patrick Reynolds
. All rights reserved.
Data from
Wikipedia
, used used under
CC BY-SA 3.0
.
Acknowledgements
Patrick Reynolds
, who rebuilt the Oracle in 1999 and has maintained it since
Brett Tjaden
, who originally conceived and implemented the Oracle in 1996
Wikipedia
is the source of all our movie, actor, and actress data. Used under the
Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, version 3.0
.
The script for extracting structured film data from Wikipedia is at
https://github.com/piki/wikipedia-film-database
.
The most recent snapshot of the data is at
https://oracleofbacon.org/data.txt.bz2
.
The original Oracle made use of the
ADAMS
OODBMS. Thanks to
Russ Haddleton
and
Glenn Wasson
for their assistance.
Thanks to the
UVA Computer Science Department
for hosting the Oracle from 1995-2008
The photograph of Kevin Bacon comes from Flickr user
SAGIndie
(via
Wikipedia
) and is used under
CC Attribution
license
Paul Erdos, on whose
Erdos numbers
our idea for
Bacon numbers
was based