Antepedia is an Open Source project search engine you can use to find detailed information about the projects that release a given file.

Antepedia searches information about the release of your component in the biggest knowledge base of 1,000,000 Open Source projects and more than 500,000,000 files. The Antepedia search engine gives you valuable information about your component. It informs you about the Open Source projects from which your component originates including a description, release date and project host. Often, developers rename the files and don't remember where the icons or artifacts originate from. Antepedia retrieves the name of the artifact as it was released. For each project, Antepedia also displays where the information was found.

For instance, if you upload a Java component such as a Junit.jar, you get all the information available. The component is in fact the Junit-4.7.jar. It was found in 8 Open Source projects released in Maven Central, GoogleCode or SourceForge. Click on the image to go to the results page on Antepedia.

For more details, go to the Antelink blog article.