Technical details:

At the moment the database is a simple sqlite file queried using only php. I'm aware that technology evolved in the last decade and this choice is questionable, but I choose to stick with it for the following reasons:

• First and foremost, being more a translator than a programmer sqlite was the language I felt most confortable with.
• At this point in time any shared hosting provide php and I'm pretty sure all of them have sql drivers installed by default, making this solution extremely portable
• The database is self contained, meaning is all in one file so it's easy to share and reimplement, also offline if needed.
• I suppose that (hoping that someone will find it interesting and the site will be used by someone else than me) at one point in time will be necessary to switch to a more feature rich DB engine. It should be realtively easy to migrate to other databases of the sql family from sqlite.

About licensing:

One of the reasons I made this site is because I believe in freedom. In particular I believe that knowledge is a fundamental asset of all humanity and must not be copyrighted. For this reason the database content is licensed under a CC0 license

This apply for the content directly hosted on the site. Other materials linked from other places may have different licenses, eg:Wikipedia which uses CC BY-SA, etc.

I do my best to assure that all the content provided are served under a free or at least permissive licence. If you are the owner of the right of something that you feel is provided here without the right to do so please contact me and if that is effectively true I will remove the content immediately.

Shoutout:

While making this site I was searching for a place to find book covers and portraits of authors. I initially thinked about using Amazon or Google, but I soon found out that their licences doesn't allow it. So I discovered Open Library, which is a side project of the Internet Archive, and is amazing!. Unfortunately many italian publications are not present, expecially the translations I'm interested in. But following the collaborative spirit of shared knowledge I found myself contributing back to the project a lot. I invite you to do the same if you find that a publication is not present in open library's database.