Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers
Hi, I think you can do this all with JS or Coffeescript. Here's a fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/chrisfitzpat/t69Xs/ On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Daryl Grenz grenzda...@hotmail.com wrote: Powell's Books provides an API (http://api.powells.com/stable) and direct links to their book covers by ISBN13 only. Regarding the limit on daily use of the Google Books API, I think from when I used it before that if you access cover links through the Dynamic Links API (https://developers.google.com/books/docs/dynamic-links) there is no daily limit. - Daryl Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:13:35 + From: aw...@rockhall.org Subject: [CODE4LIB] display book covers To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Hi all, Anyone have some good resources about tools for gathering book cover images? I'm building that into our next catalog update, which uses Blacklight, but I'm not necessarily looking for Rails-only approaches. My questions are more general: What sources are out there? (ex. Google Books, amazon) Making it work? I'm trying out Google Books at the moment, just making a call to their API. This can be asynchronously and loaded after the rest of the page, or cached, perhaps even store the url in solr or a database table? Tools? I am trying out a Google Books gem[1], which is just a wrapper for the api. Other thoughts? Thanks in advance, …adam __ Adam Wead Systems and Digital Collections Librarian Library + Archives Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum 216.515.1960 aw...@rockhall.org [1] https://github.com/zeantsoi/GoogleBooks This communication is a confidential and proprietary business communication. It is intended solely for the use of the designated recipient(s). If this communication is received in error, please contact the sender and delete this communication.
Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers
LibraryThing's API may have book cover art , can't remember... We pay for Syndetics (cover art service) (owned by Bowker) and can use that for our cover art outside PAC From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Fitzpatrick [chrisfitz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 9:56 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers Hi, I think you can do this all with JS or Coffeescript. Here's a fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/chrisfitzpat/t69Xs/ On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Daryl Grenz grenzda...@hotmail.com wrote: Powell's Books provides an API (http://api.powells.com/stable) and direct links to their book covers by ISBN13 only. Regarding the limit on daily use of the Google Books API, I think from when I used it before that if you access cover links through the Dynamic Links API (https://developers.google.com/books/docs/dynamic-links) there is no daily limit. - Daryl Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:13:35 + From: aw...@rockhall.org Subject: [CODE4LIB] display book covers To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Hi all, Anyone have some good resources about tools for gathering book cover images? I'm building that into our next catalog update, which uses Blacklight, but I'm not necessarily looking for Rails-only approaches. My questions are more general: What sources are out there? (ex. Google Books, amazon) Making it work? I'm trying out Google Books at the moment, just making a call to their API. This can be asynchronously and loaded after the rest of the page, or cached, perhaps even store the url in solr or a database table? Tools? I am trying out a Google Books gem[1], which is just a wrapper for the api. Other thoughts? Thanks in advance, …adam __ Adam Wead Systems and Digital Collections Librarian Library + Archives Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum 216.515.1960 aw...@rockhall.org [1] https://github.com/zeantsoi/GoogleBooks This communication is a confidential and proprietary business communication. It is intended solely for the use of the designated recipient(s). If this communication is received in error, please contact the sender and delete this communication.
Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers
I wanted to mention that I pointed to the Open Library covers API earlier, and it so happens that was on a day when OL covers was down (possibly due to the disruption of the fire at the Internet Archive). So if you've been having trouble with OL covers, it has been reported that they are now available again. https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers kc On 11/7/13 6:57 AM, Brent Ferguson wrote: LibraryThing's API may have book cover art , can't remember... We pay for Syndetics (cover art service) (owned by Bowker) and can use that for our cover art outside PAC From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Fitzpatrick [chrisfitz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 9:56 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers Hi, I think you can do this all with JS or Coffeescript. Here's a fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/chrisfitzpat/t69Xs/ On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Daryl Grenz grenzda...@hotmail.com wrote: Powell's Books provides an API (http://api.powells.com/stable) and direct links to their book covers by ISBN13 only. Regarding the limit on daily use of the Google Books API, I think from when I used it before that if you access cover links through the Dynamic Links API (https://developers.google.com/books/docs/dynamic-links) there is no daily limit. - Daryl Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:13:35 + From: aw...@rockhall.org Subject: [CODE4LIB] display book covers To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Hi all, Anyone have some good resources about tools for gathering book cover images? I'm building that into our next catalog update, which uses Blacklight, but I'm not necessarily looking for Rails-only approaches. My questions are more general: What sources are out there? (ex. Google Books, amazon) Making it work? I'm trying out Google Books at the moment, just making a call to their API. This can be asynchronously and loaded after the rest of the page, or cached, perhaps even store the url in solr or a database table? Tools? I am trying out a Google Books gem[1], which is just a wrapper for the api. Other thoughts? Thanks in advance, …adam __ Adam Wead Systems and Digital Collections Librarian Library + Archives Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum 216.515.1960 aw...@rockhall.org [1] https://github.com/zeantsoi/GoogleBooks This communication is a confidential and proprietary business communication. It is intended solely for the use of the designated recipient(s). If this communication is received in error, please contact the sender and delete this communication. -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers
nice! yeah, I was thinking of something along those lines. …adam On Nov 7, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Chris Fitzpatrick chrisfitz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I think you can do this all with JS or Coffeescript. Here's a fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/chrisfitzpat/t69Xs/ On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Daryl Grenz grenzda...@hotmail.com wrote: Powell's Books provides an API (http://api.powells.com/stable) and direct links to their book covers by ISBN13 only. Regarding the limit on daily use of the Google Books API, I think from when I used it before that if you access cover links through the Dynamic Links API (https://developers.google.com/books/docs/dynamic-links) there is no daily limit. - Daryl Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:13:35 + From: aw...@rockhall.org Subject: [CODE4LIB] display book covers To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Hi all, Anyone have some good resources about tools for gathering book cover images? I'm building that into our next catalog update, which uses Blacklight, but I'm not necessarily looking for Rails-only approaches. My questions are more general: What sources are out there? (ex. Google Books, amazon) Making it work? I'm trying out Google Books at the moment, just making a call to their API. This can be asynchronously and loaded after the rest of the page, or cached, perhaps even store the url in solr or a database table? Tools? I am trying out a Google Books gem[1], which is just a wrapper for the api. Other thoughts? Thanks in advance, …adam __ Adam Wead Systems and Digital Collections Librarian Library + Archives Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum 216.515.1960 aw...@rockhall.org [1] https://github.com/zeantsoi/GoogleBooks This communication is a confidential and proprietary business communication. It is intended solely for the use of the designated recipient(s). If this communication is received in error, please contact the sender and delete this communication. This communication is a confidential and proprietary business communication. It is intended solely for the use of the designated recipient(s). If this communication is received in error, please contact the sender and delete this communication.
Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers
I built something similar using Google Books. You'll definitely want to create a mechanism for caching the cover image URLs or else you are going to run into the API's daily limit (which is 1000 by default I think). An easy way to do it would be to store the URL and an identifier such as a bib record number or ISBN as a pair in a Solr index or SQL database. When the page loads, you can have either the client side or the server side fetch the image URL based on the current identifier number and display it on the page. I built a new books display using Google Books that shows an automatically changing feed of recently added books. I ended up creating a script that runs each day, and rather than indexing the image URLs it generates a static HTML page for the display, which contains all the complex formatting so that it doesn't have to happen with each page load. You can see it here: https://library.sbuniv.edu/new-books/ Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Adam Wead Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 9:14 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] display book covers Hi all, Anyone have some good resources about tools for gathering book cover images? I'm building that into our next catalog update, which uses Blacklight, but I'm not necessarily looking for Rails-only approaches. My questions are more general: What sources are out there? (ex. Google Books, amazon) Making it work? I'm trying out Google Books at the moment, just making a call to their API. This can be asynchronously and loaded after the rest of the page, or cached, perhaps even store the url in solr or a database table? Tools? I am trying out a Google Books gem[1], which is just a wrapper for the api. Other thoughts? Thanks in advance, .adam __ Adam Wead Systems and Digital Collections Librarian Library + Archives Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum 216.515.1960 aw...@rockhall.org [1] https://github.com/zeantsoi/GoogleBooks This communication is a confidential and proprietary business communication. It is intended solely for the use of the designated recipient(s). If this communication is received in error, please contact the sender and delete this communication.
Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers
Google's API terms of service prohibit the caching of API results for longer than their cache header: snip Prohibitions on Content Unless expressly permitted by the content owner or by applicable law, you agree that you will not, and will not permit your end users to, do the following with content returned from the APIs: Scrape, build databases or otherwise create permanent copies of such content, or keep cached copies longer than permitted by the cache header; /snip Google API requests usually return with a 7 day cache header set. So, in theory, there should be logic to clear the cache on a regular basis. However, I'm not sure how often Google enforces their API terms... I'd imagine other API services have similar, or perhaps more restrictive, terms as well. That's why it was decided we're not to use Amazon to for cover images. Also, check with publishers for artwork. Elsevier, for example, provides cover images for journals which can be used in your catalog. http://www.elsevier.com/journal-pricing/journal-cover-images We use Google APIs and publisher provided images to provide cover art for our catalog. It works pretty well for popular titles, but falls short for the majority of our holdings. -David -- David Lee (608) 890-1912 Shared Development Group - UW Madison General Library System On Nov 5, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote: I built something similar using Google Books. You'll definitely want to create a mechanism for caching the cover image URLs or else you are going to run into the API's daily limit (which is 1000 by default I think). An easy way to do it would be to store the URL and an identifier such as a bib record number or ISBN as a pair in a Solr index or SQL database. When the page loads, you can have either the client side or the server side fetch the image URL based on the current identifier number and display it on the page. I built a new books display using Google Books that shows an automatically changing feed of recently added books. I ended up creating a script that runs each day, and rather than indexing the image URLs it generates a static HTML page for the display, which contains all the complex formatting so that it doesn't have to happen with each page load. You can see it here: https://library.sbuniv.edu/new-books/ Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Adam Wead Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 9:14 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] display book covers Hi all, Anyone have some good resources about tools for gathering book cover images? I'm building that into our next catalog update, which uses Blacklight, but I'm not necessarily looking for Rails-only approaches. My questions are more general: What sources are out there? (ex. Google Books, amazon) Making it work? I'm trying out Google Books at the moment, just making a call to their API. This can be asynchronously and loaded after the rest of the page, or cached, perhaps even store the url in solr or a database table? Tools? I am trying out a Google Books gem[1], which is just a wrapper for the api. Other thoughts? Thanks in advance, .adam __ Adam Wead Systems and Digital Collections Librarian Library + Archives Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum 216.515.1960 aw...@rockhall.org [1] https://github.com/zeantsoi/GoogleBooks This communication is a confidential and proprietary business communication. It is intended solely for the use of the designated recipient(s). If this communication is received in error, please contact the sender and delete this communication. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers
Open Library's CoverStore API information is here: https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers kc On 11/5/13 7:13 AM, Adam Wead wrote: Hi all, Anyone have some good resources about tools for gathering book cover images? I'm building that into our next catalog update, which uses Blacklight, but I'm not necessarily looking for Rails-only approaches. My questions are more general: What sources are out there? (ex. Google Books, amazon) Making it work? I'm trying out Google Books at the moment, just making a call to their API. This can be asynchronously and loaded after the rest of the page, or cached, perhaps even store the url in solr or a database table? Tools? I am trying out a Google Books gem[1], which is just a wrapper for the api. Other thoughts? Thanks in advance, …adam __ Adam Wead Systems and Digital Collections Librarian Library + Archives Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum 216.515.1960 aw...@rockhall.org [1] https://github.com/zeantsoi/GoogleBooks This communication is a confidential and proprietary business communication. It is intended solely for the use of the designated recipient(s). If this communication is received in error, please contact the sender and delete this communication. -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
