Works like a charm! Thank you *very* much!
Strongly suggest you add the csv file to data.bl.uk - it means people
can get a decent overview of what's contained within, and do simple
searches for material.
Thanks once again,
John
On 08/11/2016 11:05, Ben O'Steen wrote:
Sorry about that! The main request that I was trying to satisfy is the
demand for "everything". https://data.bl.uk is meant for all the items
that we cannot deliver through other online means or by shipping a
harddrive.
The JSON structure links together a number of services that have no easy
process to gain machine-readable connections between them, mainly
Flickr, the BL catalog and the access portal system that you can (should
be able to) download the PDFs from.
I have loaded the JSON file into OpenRefine (and, incidentally, it can
be opened with python's json module. It was also created with this
module as well.)
If you have python installed, this script will created a flattened UTF-8
encoded CSV file from the json, with most fields included:
https://gist.github.com/benosteen/7dd20109bbdf7716218ba73279c70a3c
I can add the resultant CSV to the item record if that would be useful?
Ben
On 8 November 2016 at 10:00, Ian Ibbotson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I don't know that this will help, but I think those resources are
also loaded into Jisc historical texts
at https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk
<https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk> -- for example
https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/results?terms=A%20Gossip%20about%20Old%20Manchester.%20With%20illustrations
<https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/results?terms=A%20Gossip%20about%20Old%20Manchester.%20With%20illustrations>
I think that there is an elasticsearch index underpinning the
collections in JHT -- You don't say what you would like to extract
from the data, but someone at JHT might be able to help? Might be
worth dropping a line to the JHT enquiries address, YMMV tho.
best,
Ian.
Ian Ibbotson
Director
Knowledge Integration Ltd
35 Paradise Street, Sheffield. S3 8PZ
T: 0114 273 8271
M: 07968 794 630
W: http://www.k-int.com
Doodle: http://doodle.com/ianibbo <http://doodle.com/ianibbo>
On 8 November 2016 at 08:41, John Levin <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear list,
The British Library has just launched
https://data.bl.uk/
with data sets including some 50,000 digitized books from 1510
to 1946.
Infuriatingly, there isn't a simple manifest of these books.
There is an enormous (50mb) JSON file
https://data.bl.uk/digbks/db21.html
<https://data.bl.uk/digbks/db21.html>
which I've been trying to wrangle with little success.
What's the best way of getting information out of this blob? ANy
help for a JSON newbie?
TIA
John
--
John Levin
http://www.anterotesis.com
http://twitter.com/anterotesis
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