Angelo, I'm not surprised that OL does not have many modern Greek books - the data comes mainly from US and UK libraries. There are some of the usual ancient Greek "classics" but not current publications.
I looked at your spreadsheet and, with the help of Google translate, was able to make out some of it. I would be willing to spec out how to convert this to a format that OL can load (either MARC or the Amazon API format), but can't do the programming, so someone else will need to volunteer for that. I'm also not sure how we get a file of records into the OL pipeline, so before we go to the effort we should make sure that is possible. kc On 11/18/12 3:56 PM, Angelo wrote: > sorry, forgot to attach the file > > here it is > > Στις 19/11/2012 01:54 πμ, ο/η Angelo έγραψε: >> 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] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ 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]
