I'd be willing to help out writing some bots to do updates assuming we could work together to share the data that's necessary to keep things in synch.
//Ed On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Tim Spalding <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > _______________________________________________ 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]
