*> *What else is needed, and what role does OpenLibrary play? When we know this, I think we can find the right tool for the task.
Figuring this out is clearly step one for any community effort of revitalization. One of the things we talked about doing once we had a community wiki was to call on people and libraries who use the Open Library to talk about how they use it. Informally, libraries have expressed that this resource is important to them--so we need to identify priorities. My personal feeling is that OL provides a few things which are different from the projects you mentioned. Mainly, it attempts to be a *comprehensive resource* offering *structured (open?) data* about every book. Other projects stop well short of this goal. Wikipedia, for instance, has notability rules. Arguably, simply having been published doesn't make a book notable enough to merit a page; certainly people would become upset if I wrote a bot that added book pages en masse from LoC data dumps. Wikidata might be the closest neighbor, but it doesn't quite have the same shape. Compare, for instance: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174596<http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174596> to http://openlibrary.org/works/OL102749W/Moby_Dick On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/14/2013 05:10 AM, David Cuenca wrote: > > Some more clarifications adding up to what Tom said: > > - Software: I suggest taking a look to the combination of Mediawiki + > > Extension:Wikibase [1], which is the one used in the Wikidata project > > [2]. Said extension allows to use a wiki as a structured data > > repository, which, I think, it should be one of the main aims here. > > Wikidata is going to > > Before discussing a new tool, what are we trying to achieve? > Anyone can install the Mediawiki software, with or without > some extensions, and try new ideas on a small scale, but > what are those ideas that you want to try? > > We have now the Internet Archive that scans books on a > large scale, and also imports scanned books from Google. > We have Project Gutenberg, Project Runeberg, and > Wikisource for proofreading the OCR text of those books. > We have Wikipedia in many languages for providing > background facts about authors, works, and genres. > > What else is needed, and what role does OpenLibrary > play? When we know this, I think we can find the > right tool for the task. > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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] > -- -Tom Johnson
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