On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Interesting article in the Code4Lib journal this issue - a library that
>> has used the archive to archive their materials, but also wanted local
>> access:
>>
>> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/11131
>
>
> Thanks for forwarding.  The OpenLibrary "Search Inside" feature searches
> across multiple items, so I'm not sure about their assertion that they
> would have had to search a single item at a time.
>
> Perhaps the ability to restrict "Search Inside" to the items of a single
> collection would have given them the bulk of the functionality that they
> were looking for.
>

As far as I've been able to tell, archive.org does not let you search
across the full-text of a single collection... which is why I built a
similar "harvest the items from a given archive.org collection and build a
full-text search engine on top of it" project a few years back:
https://gitlab.com/ia-harvester/ia-harvester

Not 100% sure what it has to do with OpenLibrary but it's nice to express
functional requirements somewhere in the open :)
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