Re: [ol-tech] (no subject)

2011-12-05 Thread George Oates
Oops - Anand responded in far more detail before me. (That'll teach me to reply before I've read all my Monday morning mail!) On 12/5/11 10:20 AM, George Oates wrote: Hi John, We're looking into this. Cheers, george On 12/4/11 4:45 PM, John Miedema wrote: Covers do vanish from your

[ol-tech] Identifier Bots (Was Re: goodreads and librarything ids)

2011-08-01 Thread George Oates
On 7/30/11 11:48 AM, Ed Summers wrote: I'd be willing to help out writing some bots to do updates assuming we could work together to share the data that's necessary to keep things in synch. Super fantastic, Ed! If we could create a bevy of local identifier management bots, that would be a

Re: [ol-tech] goodreads and librarything ids

2011-07-28 Thread George Oates
We did some bulk updates via a few bots for Goodreads, Library Thing and OCLC. They aren't being updated, sadly, though that's something we'd obviously be very interested in setting up. There's more information about writing Bots for Open Library here: http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bots

Re: [ol-tech] Mapping cover images

2011-06-06 Thread George Oates
On 6/3/11 5:57 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: On 04-Jun-2011, at 12:58 AM, Sanchez, Alvaro wrote: Hello, We have been playing with the covers from OL and we have found that when you use the mapping from the *ol_dump_coverids* file and the separate files from the cover images bundles

Re: [ol-tech] Library lending message

2011-05-23 Thread George Oates
Thanks, Karen Tom. There is a bug in how we enter participating libraries' IP address info (so patrons in their network can access the program). Cheers, george On 5/22/11 8:25 AM, Tom Morris wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Karen Coylekco...@kcoyle.net wrote: I'm in my living room

Re: [ol-tech] February bulk data dump?

2011-03-09 Thread George Oates
That's right, Dan - we're still working on the migration. Add to that mix an anonymous user hitting us for covers at 100 hits per second! Gah! (We're considering a redesign of the software that serves covers via ISBN...) (But, we'll try to address the dumps issue once dust has settled.)

[ol-tech] Use of Open Library API? Collecting examples...

2011-03-07 Thread George Oates
Hi all, I'm writing to request some information from you... we don't specifically track external use of the Open Library API or data, but we're interested to know who is using us and how. If you have used the API or covers or are showing OL data on your site, would you be so kind as to reply

Re: [ol-tech] How often is the ISBN index updated? -- or am I mis-configuring the OpenBook WordPress plugin?

2011-02-02 Thread George Oates
You're right. We should work on validating ISBN, both at the point of data entry, batch imports and search. There's a pretty old bug about it, for what it's worth: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openlibrary/+bug/485999 On 2/2/11 9:40 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: It occurs to me that ISBNs may be

Re: [ol-tech] database vandalism

2011-01-26 Thread George Oates
On 1/26/11 12:08 PM, Tim Spalding wrote: What ever happened to the porn covers some years ago? Hmm. Not sure what you're referring to. Might be before my time. Anyone else know? Also - the Robert Stanek situation was news to me. We're certainly thinking more and more about straightforward

[ol-tech] The Lists feature has launched!

2010-12-15 Thread George Oates
Hi everyone, Just in case you miss our other communications channels, I'd like to let you know that we've released our much-anticipated Lists feature. (Anticipated by us, at least). ;) Lists are for three things: - to collect catalog records together in original ways - to watch for updates to

Re: [ol-tech] Bulk Download and Request

2010-12-08 Thread George Oates
archive.org, perhaps? On 12/8/10 11:08 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: Quoting Lee Passeyl...@novomail.net: If anyone would like it, I'd be happy to upload my schema. I'd love to see it. Everyone's FRBR implementation seems to be different. Sometimes slightly different, sometimes wildly

Re: [ol-tech] OpenBook WordPress Plugin - Version 3 - Seeking Beta Testers

2010-10-18 Thread George Oates
Woo hoo!! Great stuff, John! g On 10/15/10 8:44 PM, John Miedema wrote: OpenBook WordPress plugin inserts book data from Open Library into WordPress posts. Users have complete control of the display through templates. Libraries can link directly to their library catalogues by configuring

Re: [ol-tech] Linked Open Data from the hbz

2010-09-02 Thread George Oates
I love sausage! :) Karen Coyle wrote: Quoting Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu: I wouldn't mind seeing the sausage. Also, whether or not it's on list, think about writing up a summary when you're done, for blog, or for Code4Lib Journal. This might also make a good use case for the

Re: [ol-tech] a few notes on rdf views

2010-06-01 Thread George Oates
Hi Ed, Thanks - and yes, we're beginning to track RDF-related issues in our Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openlibrary/+bugs?field.tag=rdf This would be Super Awesome time for you to patch the source!! Can we help you along with that? Cheers, george Ed Summers wrote: Kudos for

Re: [ol-tech] a few notes on rdf views

2010-06-01 Thread George Oates
Oops :) Excuse me! Anand Chitipothu wrote: On 01-Jun-10, at 7:28 PM, Ed Summers wrote: Kudos for keeping the linkeddata rdf views in the new version of OpenLibrary. I just noticed that the application/rdf+xml views seem to lack a namespace prefix definition for 'rdf'. This causes some