hey all, I'm starting work on "Libary", the php/mysql/ldap based inter library loan software so ordinary people can aggregate their personal libraries into a public library. In a later stage, I intend to implement pseudonymity and dead drops so opressed people in the third world can create underground libraries with compartmentalized storage.
So I'm researching the data structure I'll need to implement the card catalog. One of the things i hope to implement is the ability, when entering the information of a book you'd like to share, is to just enter the ISBN/ISSN/LCCN and have the app query a service, using that string to fill in the data automagically. Problem is, I need to be able to trust the service I'm querying (I can't use a government library like library of congress because in future versions, I shouldn't give that information to an organization with an intelligence service), I need to be able to parse the results (format of results shouldn't be a moving target) and I need to be able to depend on multiple services (failover, no single point of information harvesting). Does anybody have any suggestions for isbn search services that meet the above criteria? I suppose I could make it a 2.0 kind of thing and just move ahead now, but it would be nice to factor in what I'd need to support this before I design the databases. tack ------------------------------------------------ Article 19: United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights: http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
