Hello:
I’m writing an iOS client to the Open Library. I’m new to JSON and REST, and do
not see a way to specify which fields to return on query by author name.
I currently use a query like
https://openlibrary.org/search/authors.json?q=Tolkien
to search by author name. This may not be the best approach.
When I try a query like
https://openlibrary.org/query.json?type=type/author&name=Tolkein
I get the empty set.
A query using the Search API like:
http://openlibrary.org/search.json?author=tolkien
<http://openlibrary.org/search.json?author=tolkien>
returns a list of books whose authors match the name. That is not what I want
at all.
I intend to touch the database as lightly as I can. I would like to include
author thumbnails in the result list. It looks to me as though I would have to
retrieve the Author object before I have the author photo ID. I would like to
find a way to do it without an extra round-trip.
The author search on the web page does not return author thumbnails. Is that
because getting the thumbnail is expensive or merely awkward?
Am I going about this the right way? Can anyone suggest a better approach?
Thanks in advance for any light anyone can shed.
Regards,
Bob Wakefield
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> From: Dan Scott <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: [ol-tech] Bringing our archive home
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> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Interesting article in the Code4Lib journal this issue - a library that
>>> has used the archive to archive their materials, but also wanted local
>>> access:
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>>> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/11131
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>> Thanks for forwarding. The OpenLibrary "Search Inside" feature searches
>> across multiple items, so I'm not sure about their assertion that they
>> would have had to search a single item at a time.
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>> Perhaps the ability to restrict "Search Inside" to the items of a single
>> collection would have given them the bulk of the functionality that they
>> were looking for.
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> As far as I've been able to tell, archive.org does not let you search
> across the full-text of a single collection... which is why I built a
> similar "harvest the items from a given archive.org collection and build a
> full-text search engine on top of it" project a few years back:
> https://gitlab.com/ia-harvester/ia-harvester
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> Not 100% sure what it has to do with OpenLibrary but it's nice to express
> functional requirements somewhere in the open :)
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