(Apologies for cross-posting)
I just posted a simple way to get free book covers into your OPAC. It
uses the new Google Book Search API.
http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/03/free-covers-for-your-library-from.php
I think Google has as much cover coverage as anyone. The API is free.
Most
All,
With all the chatter of late about grabbing materials from Internet
Archive, the development team for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
documented the process we use to harvest materials:
http://biodiversitylibrary.blogspot.com/2008/03/harvesting-process-from-
internet_14.html
I hope this h
Excellent comment, Tim! My experience at UT Austin has been the same --
it is quite amazing what can be accomplished my a small group of people
willing to think outside of traditional/current models, be they
business, administrative, or even technical infrastructure models. By
refusing (or even b
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Tim Spalding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I won't toot my own horn, but I think LibraryThing has experimented a
> good deal—and we're a handful of people. We have the budget of a small
> library in rural Maine. I suspect Open Library is costing about the
> same
Hey Kyle how the heck are you?
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From: Kyle Banerjee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03/14/2008 08:57 AM MST
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] open library
> I think there is still a lot of potential to make machine readable
> metadata available at the
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Emily Lynema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
available. I have to admit it seems odd to me to include so much
> attribute information in a single element, but I suppose that
> would be helpful in identifying what specific manifestation is being
> referred to in the
I'd like to say we should not get sidetracked by discussions of
"business models." I particularly object to the idea that LibraryThing
can't experiment in the way that OL can because we have to have a
business model.
I won't toot my own horn, but I think LibraryThing has experimented a
good deal—a
> I think there is still a lot of potential to make machine readable
> metadata available at the same URIs that provide human readable
> bibliographic descriptions...
It almost seems insane not to do this since adding this tiny bit of
highly useful functionality is trivial.
> I think this is
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Emily Lynema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/0689868847?library=oca&fl=*
>
> I have to admit it seems odd to me to include so much
> attribute information in a single element, but I suppose that
> would be helpful
xiaoming,
This is cool. just a couple of thoughts.
If a user is interested in "The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived
Before Achilles" with ISBN:0689868847, and he can limit the search to "OCA"
by issuing xISBN request with "library=oca", such as:
http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/
Greetings to all. I recently discovered your site and have been enjoying
reading many of the postings, and wish I had such resources when I was in
grad school. As this is my first post, I wish it could be a contribution,
such as a bit of dialogue about the Vector Space Model or MOD-OAI, or some
s
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