Tom, the input routines do not take in JSON, so I don't know if that will work. The only input formats that I'm aware of are MARC and (I just looked at the code) a crawl of Amazon. The OL API returns JSON, but the internal storage is a triple-store. It looks to me like the MARC data is transformed into key/value pairs, but there isn't documentation and reading code "cold" is not fun. If you can figure anything out from the code -- please report back!
kc On 11/23/12 9:44 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Karen Coyle <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > 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. > > > Since OpenLibrary's native format is JSON, there's a good chance that > OpenRefine could massage the CSV into the necessary format using the > templating exporter (ie no programming required). > > I'd be willing to help with that or a simple Python script to do the > conversion if I didn't have the strong (nay, overwhelming) sense that > Open Library has been abandoned by the Internet Archive as they move on > to newer, shinier projects. > > Tom > > 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 > > > -- 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]
