Hi, I think that non-english publishers are also included in the open library project but not many books in Greek are included yet.
So i would like to inform you (in case you don't already know) that the National Book Center of Greece (EKEBI) collects all greek publications. They have records for all books published in Greece since 1990 (around 170.000) You can find more info here : http://www.gbip.gr/main.asp?page=aboutus and here : http://www.gbip.gr/main.asp?page=aboutus They state that "On July 1st 2003 access was made openly available to the public." which is true but their public service lacks an api or a way to get a dump of the database. On the other hand they do provide a way to download an .xls file of the user's current search. (greek version of the site only). A current search could be : gimme all the books of publisher X I have contacted them several times for details on how i can access the database for my thesis but got no answer. I guess that if you send them a request, they will have to answer back. If not, i could finish my scraping scripts based on any specs that you can provide. The problem is that their web view doesn't provide all info (the xls download method mentioned above provides more) Their database provides Titles,authors, publishers etc in greek, english and greeklish. if you do take action and have any feedback i would really be interested to know the response. cheers Angelo I attach a small xls sample file of a single publisher _______________________________________________ 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]
