Re: Curious about Cell Phone Barcode Scanning Apps

From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 10:49:24 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On May 8, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Matt Amory wrote:

> I'm interested in some advice on building an app to pickup barcode  
> data
> through a cell phone camera and return OPAC/Library Thing/WorldCat  
> etc.
> results to a mobile interface.
> I know that Android has a UPC barcode reader linked to a shopping  
> app, and
> I'm wondering if this can be used or repurposed, or if there's a  
> better
> place to begin.


Consider Semapedia, funny looking barcodes to map the physical world  
objects to the Webbed world:

   http://en.semapedia.org/

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Eric Lease Morgan
Received on Fri May 08 2009 - 10:52:37 EDT