Along those lines, there is a recent /recovering the classics/ effort to solicit free cover art for pd works without beautiful pd covers.
It would be great if the tools for staying up to date w big data sources like LOC also worked for syncing with smaller collections like those. Sam On Jun 30, 2015 12:40 PM, "Karen Coyle" <kco...@kcoyle.net> wrote: > To that, I would add: > > 6. Keeping OL up to date using Amazon and/or Library of Congress. No new > data has been added to those sources in a couple of years (I used to > remember when it stopped), so every day the database gets further from > having current publications and covers for those publications. > > kc > > On 6/29/15 11:33 AM, jessamyn c. west wrote: > >> When we had our last meeting these were the priorities that I came up >> with that are still outstanding. Basic functionality issues for me >> besides stopping spam are: waitlist functions, DAISY issues and a few >> different search issues. >> >> 1. Top priority to me is the waitlist bug which is still affecting a >> number of patrons and is the only thing that is newly "broken." >> 2. Small but important issue is the DAISY files not being created for >> some books. This was fixed and is now not fixed again. >> 3. Getting Search results showing proper status of books (i.e. people >> search for a book, search results show it's available but it's checked >> out) >> 4. Getting Solr index current (so people add a book and can find it a >> few days later, or add a book to an author's page and can see it >> there). >> 5. Search working correctly. Includes Search inside working with >> multiple word searches, through multiple page queries, with current >> results and functional on iPad >> >> ________ >> Jessamyn >> >> librarian.net ::: jessamyn.com ::: jessamyn.info ::: box 345, randolph >> vt 05060 >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jun 29, 2015 2:15 PM, "Tom Morris" <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> There's a bunch of stuff that could be done to streamline the spam >>>> flagging and processing, do more automated spam detection, etc. The >>>> current >>>> web form reporting and lone pioneer cleaning up doesn't scale... >>>> >>>> It's sad to see because it wouldn't really take that much effort to make >>>> it a thriving and vibrant site, but IA just doesn't care. >>>> >>> >>> I was just in SF running a CODEX hackathon, and met some IA folk who >>> talked >>> about how to make OL awesome again + better integrated & supported. >>> >>> So at least some people are discussing caring. And I believe they're >>> looking >>> to hire ~5 developers across the Archive. >>> >>> A list of priorities — from the community of OL users and would-be >>> contributors — as a subset of the many many open bugs and requests — >>> could >>> be helpful to any new push. >>> >>> Sam >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org >>> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss >>> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ >>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >>> ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org >> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >> ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org >> >> > -- > Karen Coyle > kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net > m: 1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600 > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
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