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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