The OpenLibrary.org <http://www.openlibrary.org> team has just finished
its latest release on the long path towards "one web page for every book
ever published."
What's new?
* added another 6 million book records (13.4 million total) with 18
million more records waiting to be integrated
* built an API <http://www.openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api> to the data
which allows you to query the database for objects matching
particular criteria or to GET an object from the database
* added internationalization support
<http://www.openlibrary.org/i18n> - we have already started on
Spanish, Italian and a few other languages, but users are now able
to translate the site into any language
* search the full text of 230,000 scanned books from the advanced
search <http://www.openlibrary.org/advanced> page
* started merging library MARC records and non-library book data
crawled from the web (still some kinks to be worked out!)
OpenLibrary is a work in progress, so please help us build it! The
site, the code and the documentation are all open, so if you're
interested in helping as a librarian or a programmer, join us - there's
lots left to do!
You can join the OL mailing list at:
http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss
And I'd especially like to thank our awesome team:
* Edward Betts
* Anand Chitipothu
* Karen Coyle
* Rebecca Malamud
* Paul Rubin
* Aaron Swartz
Thanks,
Alexis Rossi
Internet Archive
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Received on Wed May 07 2008 - 13:05:56 EDT