The OpenLibrary.org <http://www.openlibrary.org> team has just finished its latest release on the long path towards "one web page for every book ever published."
What's new? * added another 6 million book records (13.4 million total) with 18 million more records waiting to be integrated * built an API <http://www.openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api> to the data which allows you to query the database for objects matching particular criteria or to GET an object from the database * added internationalization support <http://www.openlibrary.org/i18n> - we have already started on Spanish, Italian and a few other languages, but users are now able to translate the site into any language * search the full text of 230,000 scanned books from the advanced search <http://www.openlibrary.org/advanced> page * started merging library MARC records and non-library book data crawled from the web (still some kinks to be worked out!) OpenLibrary is a work in progress, so please help us build it! The site, the code and the documentation are all open, so if you're interested in helping as a librarian or a programmer, join us - there's lots left to do! You can join the OL mailing list at: http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss And I'd especially like to thank our awesome team: * Edward Betts * Anand Chitipothu * Karen Coyle * Rebecca Malamud * Paul Rubin * Aaron Swartz Thanks, Alexis Rossi Internet Archive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Openlibrary mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openlibrary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech