About Chive
Decentralized eprints on ATProto
What is Chive?
Chive is an eprint service built on AT Protocol. Your eprints live in your Personal Data Server (PDS), not ours. We index and display them, but you control the data.
Key Features
Data Sovereignty
Your eprints are stored in your PDS. If Chive disappears tomorrow, your work remains intact and accessible. Chive is an AppView—we index data but never own it.
Decentralized Identity
Open Peer Review
Transparent, threaded reviews with unlimited depth. All reviews are signed and attributable to their authors.
Knowledge Graph
Explore research through our knowledge graph—a community-curated taxonomy of fields, institutions, and concepts linked to Wikidata.
Community Governance
Wikipedia-style moderation for the knowledge graph. Propose new nodes, vote on changes, and help curate scholarship.
Endorsements
Formal endorsements categorized by contribution type, derived from the CRediT taxonomy for research contributions.
Tagging
Add tags to eprints to help others discover related work. Popular tags can be promoted to official taxonomy terms through governance.
Discovery
Technology
Chive is built as an AppView on AT Protocol. We index eprints from the AT Protocol firehose but never store your data as the source of truth. If our entire database were deleted, all eprints would still exist in their owners' Personal Data Servers.
Open Source
Chive is open source software. We believe in transparency and community-driven development. Contributions are welcome!
Ready to Get Started?
Start exploring eprints or submit your own research