On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 16:35, James Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > Elena, > > I used an online catalog that only contains title and author. Gutenberg has > another catalog in RDF format which has a log more information, and I may > use that as a basis for my search some day. That would allow searches by > subject, title, author, language, etc. I realize this would be a lot more > useful, but my time available for Python programming is just a few hours a > week. If I can get 80% of the benefit for 20% of the work that's what I'll > do first.
That sounds awesome! Some interesting info: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-May/614821.html Regards, Tomeu > James Simmons > > > Elena of Valhalla wrote: > > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:15 PM, James Simmons > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It is a fair statement to say that most PG books are in English. > However, if you go to the PG website you can list out books in various > languages, and there are a fair number in Spanish. > > > I've had the reverse problem: I've searched a book as a test (Macbeth > by Shakespeare) and had to download it in two different languages > before I found the english text. Did I miss language informations > somewhere in the activity, or are they missing? > > Usually the title would help, but cases like this where the title is > the same in any translation are a significant minority, and I believe > that either showing it or allowing to restrict searches by language > should be useful. > > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
