Description
Collective Knowledge is a powerful Chrome browser extension that enhances the way researchers and practitioners interact with online technical content. Its primary function is to annotate web pages with a rich layer of related information, including academic research papers, source code repositories, reproducible experimental results, scoreboards, portable workflows, and reusable artifacts. This tool is particularly beneficial for those working in AI, Machine Learning, Systems research, and other emerging technology fields.
The extension aims to bridge the gap between discovering novel techniques presented on web pages and the ability to find, test, and reproduce them. By clicking on the extension's icon, users can access a curated list of relevant resources linked to the current web page. This includes direct links to papers on platforms like ArXiv and Google Scholar, code on GitHub and GitLab, and benchmark results from sources like PapersWithCode and MLPerf. The system regularly indexes over a million URLs and objects from these key research websites, ensuring a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge base.
Users are not limited to passively consuming information; they can actively contribute by adding their own links with relevant information for any given web page. Furthermore, the platform allows users to rank the relevance of existing links, fostering a community-driven approach to knowledge curation. This collaborative aspect ensures that the most valuable and accurate resources are easily discoverable. The extension also provides access to a search engine at https://cKnowledge.io for broader exploration.
To test its functionality, users are encouraged to visit the MobileNets ArXiv paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04861) and the MLPerf inference benchmark GitHub repository (https://github.com/mlperf/inference). Upon visiting these pages, clicking the extension's blue neuron icon will reveal associated code, artifacts, and results. Collective Knowledge is committed to user privacy and operates under a GDPR-compliant policy, detailed at https://cknowledge.io/privacy-for-browser-extension. The source code for the browser add-on is available on GitHub at https://github.com/gfursin/ck-browser-addon.
Collective Knowledge's Core Features
Annotate web pages with research papers
Link to related code repositories
Connect to reproducible results
Discover portable workflows
Access reusable artifacts
Index over 1 million URLs from research sites
Search engine integration via cKnowledge.io
User contribution of relevant links
Relevance ranking of existing links
GDPR compliant privacy policy
Supports AI, ML, and Systems research
How to use Collective Knowledge?
Install the Collective Knowledge Chrome extension
Navigate to a web page with relevant technical content
Click the extension's blue neuron icon to view annotations
Access linked research papers, code, and results
Add your own relevant links to annotate the page
Rank the relevance of existing annotations
Use the cKnowledge.io search engine for broader discovery
Collective Knowledge's Use Cases
- Research Paper Annotation
- Code Discovery
- Reproducibility
- Knowledge Curation
- Emerging Tech Exploration
- Benchmark Analysis








