Thanks, Tom. I've given this a short try and it works well. I'll exercise it a bit to discover what "gotchas" OL has to provide, and then will document it.
Next, I'll see if I can get some public libraries to try it out, preferably ones using a variety of ILSs. kc On 6/24/13 7:31 PM, Tom Morris wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Karen Coyle <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 6/17/13 1:16 PM, Tom Morris wrote: > > So, for your example, starting here: > > http://openlibrary.org/books/__OL24187726M/Guy_Mannering > <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24187726M/Guy_Mannering> > > It's currently two clicks to get the MARC/XML for the e-book, > but that > could be reduced to a single click. > > > Actually, you can click through to the original record, but not to > the record that has been modified to represent the ebook -- since > that happens on the fly in response to the _archive_marc URL. > > Would it be better to just incorporate it into the page on the site > (down with the rest of the "download catalog record" options) rather > than having it as a browser plugin? Who is the target consumer > of these > records? > > > Brewster has said in the past that he is not in favor of having OL > be a source of MARC records. I'm assuming that he would not want a > link added to the OL page for a MARC record that would be intended > to be consumed into library systems. But obviously that would be the > easiest option. (The link to the original record has flown under the > radar, but in any case it's not a valid record for the ebook.) > > > It seems totally weird to me to veto functionality that users find > useful, but as an interim step I've created the bookmarklet that you > requested. Just create a bookmark with a mnemonic name, e.g. "OL MARC", > and use the following line for the content: > > javascript:var epub = document.querySelector("div#readBooks > a[href*=epub]").getAttribute('href'); var marc = > epub.replace(".epub","_archive_marc.xml");window.open(marc); > > If you're on an OL edition page which links to an ePub, it'll open the > MARC record in a new window when you click the bookmark. > > Tom > > > As for consumers, there are library systems that would like to add a > selection of records for free ebooks into their catalogs. They do > NOT want the full 1.n million records, they want only a select few. > I am working on a grant to try to identify sets of records that > would facilitate this. We don't know yet exactly what the > preferences are for ingesting these records. > > kc > > > Tom > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Karen Coyle <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: > > Tom, > > I was thinking of starting at an ol Edition page. So > someone would > discover the book they want using OL, and then could click > on a plug-in > that would grab the OL ID, create the relevant URL (I'm > assuming the one > formatted as "_archive_marc"). At that point, I think it > would be ideal > if the URL was opened in a new browser window. At that > point, the user > would have to save the MARC XML from the browser page. Even > better would > be if instead of a page it created an actual download to a > file. > > Clear? > > kc > > On 6/17/13 10:34 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Karen Coyle > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>> wrote: > > > > > > The other thing is that it would be great to have a > browser > plug-in that > > creates this from any page with an archive ID. Does that > sound feasible? > > If so, I think I'll start a section of the projects > page for > "proposed > > projects." > > > > > > Can you give an example of a starting point? I'm > unclear on what you > > would like. > > > > There's already a link to the e-edition MARC/XML on this > page: > > http://archive.org/details/__cu31924075867089 > <http://archive.org/details/cu31924075867089> > > > > A link could be added here as well: > > > http://openlibrary.org/show-__records/ia:cu31924075867089 > <http://openlibrary.org/show-records/ia:cu31924075867089> but I'm > not sure > > if you're talking about starting at an archive.org > <http://archive.org> > <http://archive.org> <http://archive.org> > > > page, an OpenLibrary page, or an arbitrary page on the web. > > > > Tom > > > > > > -- > Karen Coyle > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > http://kcoyle.net > ph: 1-510-540-7596 <tel:1-510-540-7596> <tel:1-510-540-7596 > <tel:1-510-540-7596>> > m: 1-510-435-8234 <tel:1-510-435-8234> <tel:1-510-435-8234 > <tel:1-510-435-8234>> > > skype: kcoylenet > _________________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-__bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > <http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech> > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > Ol-tech-unsubscribe@archive.__org > <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:Ol-tech-unsubscribe@__archive.org > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > > -- > Karen Coyle > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://kcoyle.net > ph: 1-510-540-7596 <tel:1-510-540-7596> > m: 1-510-435-8234 <tel:1-510-435-8234> > skype: kcoylenet > > -- 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]
