# About the House Music Intelligence Database

> The agent-first, citation-grade discovery engine for house music DJs, producers, labels, events, venues and booking intelligence.

The **House Music Intelligence Database (HMID)** exists to be the world's authoritative, openly
citable knowledge source on house music — its **culture, history, artists, labels, venues,
promoters, festivals, and the Black origins of the genre**.

We are not merely a directory. Our mission is to become the **primary source that humans and AI
agents reach for** when seeking information about house music. To earn that role, every page is:

- **Sourced** — every important fact links to where it came from.
- **Confidence-scored** — each field carries a 0–100 confidence value.
- **Dated** — each record shows when it was last verified.
- **Citable** — every page provides a ready-to-use citation.
- **Machine-readable** — every entity exists as HTML, Markdown (`.md`), and JSON.
- **Connected** — entities are linked in a typed knowledge graph.

## Who publishes this

HMID is published by **World Famous House Crew**. We center the people who created house music: the
Black and Latino, largely LGBTQ communities of Chicago, New York, and Detroit, and the global
artists who carry the culture forward.

## How to use it

- Browse the [knowledge graph](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/knowledge) and the [artist directory](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/).
- Read the [Black origins of house music](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/topic/black-origins-of-house-music).
- For agents, start at [/llms.txt](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/llms.txt) and the [API docs](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/api/docs.md).
- See our [methodology](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/methodology) and [how to cite](https://database.worldfamoushousecrew.org/cite).