I presume you've all seen xkcd on this topic? http://xkcd.com/927/
Tim On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:31 PM, George Oates <[email protected]> wrote: > We did some bulk updates via a few bots for Goodreads, Library Thing and > OCLC. They aren't being updated, sadly, though that's something we'd > obviously be very interested in setting up. > > There's more information about writing Bots for Open Library here: > http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bots > > ...and we've had informal discussions with several groups including BNF, DNB > and Hathi about doing something similar. > > Cheers, > george > > PS - Tim - if you have any good ideas about how to make this an ongoing > process with LT, I'd love to try to set that up! > > PPS - We're just adding these identifiers to our search engine too (and > eventually the web UI), so people can hit SOLR instead of the DB externally > to query for metadata - much faster. > > > On Jul 27, 2011, at 8:50 PM, Tim Spalding wrote: > >> OpenLibrary programmers made the Goodreads linkages. LibraryThing sent >> Goodreads a list of the IDs at some point and they integrated them. >> >> T >> >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Ed Summers <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I noticed that the OpenLIbrary API makes GoodReads and LibraryThing >>> IDs available. I was wondering when/how these linkages were made, and >>> if they are being updated at all. Thanks for any information you can >>> provide! >>> >>> //Ed >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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] >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding >> _______________________________________________ >> 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] > -- Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding _______________________________________________ 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]
