Amazon records *can* be pretty good for modern, in print or recently in print items. The ones that seem to be really funky are the ones from third-party sellers, who often only supply a very minimum of data (and sometimes that wasn't well key-boarded). It would be great to figure out a way to use only the "real" Amazon data, not the third-party data.
kc On 2/16/13 5:37 AM, Ben Companjen wrote: > Hi David, > > Nothing has been imported since August [1], but the code that (I think) > was used to import from Amazon can be found at > https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/tree/master/openlibrary/catalog/amazon > > Just out of curiousity, would you like to share what you're trying to > achieve? My impression of Amazon data is that many 'records' are incomplete. > > [1] > <http://openbiblio.net/2013/02/06/minutes-28th-virtual-meeting-of-the-okfn-working-group-for-open-bibliographic-data/> > > Regards, > > Ben > > P.S. If you want to discuss developing with/for Open Library, perhaps > you could join the ol-tech list where more technical issues are discussed. > <http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech> > > > On 16 February 2013 06:02, David Arken <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Can someone please point me to the amazon crawler code + parser code > that openlibrary uses currently for integrating data from amazon. I > tred to find it using google but was unable to. > > I did find data on the internet archive which looks like amazon > crawls, but not sure how new/old it is and how and what was parsed > into ol already. > > Thanks, > --David > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
