I am not exaclty sure what Tim is doing, but for my purposes it's really really important for the OpenLibrary APIs to tell me what formats a book is available in (if there are scans, and the URL(s) to get there; if there is a in-browser reader, and the URL to get there, etc).
This is (or would be if it were simple) one of the most common use cases for OL, no? As far as dumps - - for my apps I generally prefer per-item APIs to dumps. But if I were using dumps, I would not want to have to take two dumps and merge them; it's enough software work already to regularly update and ingest one dump. If the second dump is just provided over email, rather than at a stable URL whose fetching can be automated, it is especially not useful. Data dumps to be useful on my end, my end needs a way to regularly update in an automated fashion, since a data dump is just a particular snapshot in time. Jonathan ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anand Chitipothu [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 12:32 AM To: Open Library -- technical discussion Subject: Re: [ol-tech] OL metadata and Daisy books On 06-Nov-2010, at 6:33 AM, Tim Spalding wrote: > I'm reparsing the full monthly OpenLibrary dump and I'm running into a > problem. > > Among other things, I'm looking for items that have the "ocaid" field > set, so I can link from the LibraryThing work to the full scan at the > Internet Archive. > > Unfortunately, some of these ocaids don't really work. I prefer to > link to the scan, not the metadata, and when I do out some of the > links I get: > > http://www.archive.org/stream/pastaperfect00sant > > The reader is broken work, apparently because the book is only > available in Daisy format, for Daisy readers. Ideally I'd like to spot > those and segment them out somehow. > > Is there any way to tell when an ocaid is a scan and when it's a Daisy? I don't think there is an easier way to find that right now. Will it solve your problem if I provide a dump of all ocaids with readability status? Anand _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
