Not to disregard your other (good) points, but perhaps it's a good idea to take a small step back to see "what is OL's goal again?" This might help set priorities for the more technical issues.
I don't think there is a need to go in a completely different direction, but I do believe different people may be here for different reasons. For example, I see some possible different nuances in goals: worldwide catalogue of all books vs. catalogue for e-books hosted by IA, API access vs. web access, only open data vs. more data regardless of openness. Using the wiki pages on OpenLibrary.org makes sense (as long as noone at IA thinks it enough and pulls the plug, which is unlikely), together with this and other OL mailinglists. Ben On 6 March 2013 10:30, John Rigdon <[email protected]> wrote: > I have spent some time perusing the bios of the various people working > with Internet Archive and viewing some presentations done by George and > others. I think a working group - call it a comittee if you must - as > suggested earlier is needed to begin setting some objectives and > responding to interested users. > > As I see it now we need to address three areas: > > 1. What technical issues need to be addressed for OL. > 2. How can we best organize for cleaning and extending the OL data > 3. Assigning and encouraging volunteers to address projects > > What do we need to do to get a wiki or some other platform set up? I can > do so on one of my domains, but if we can get the setup or access here on > OL or Internet Archive I think it will be best. I think a first step > needs to be a working of the existing help pages / user documentation to > make it more usable / accessible for non-techies. While I have extensive > experience in the web and programming, I have found it quite tedious to > navigate and sort through what is currently there. > > John Rigdon > > > _______________________________________________ > 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]
