Peter,
I've seen no official information or documentation from the Internet Archive
either. I've actually been quite frustrated by several issues for a while
now. For example: If you go to
http://www.archive.org/details/nonexistentidentifier you'll get a
human-readable web page stating that the
Inspired by a thread on this list yesterday, I started playing with the
Open Library API. In order to query through the API, you must pass a
query as a JSON serialized object. That's good, and it could be great,
given that for Java and PHP (at least) there already exists the ability
to serialize a
I see no reason not to send this along to the developers. I don't know
if key has some special significance or if something else could be
easily substituted. The API is very new and hasn't been used much, so
it's good to surface things of this nature. (Note: I consult on the bib
data aspect of
Disregard my last post. I replied to the wrong email.
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David Cloutman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Marin County Free Library
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