There are a stack of great free ebook repositories available on the web,
things like https://unglue.it/ http://www.gutenberg.org/
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.gutenberg.net.au/
https://www.smashwords.com/books/category/1/newest/0/free/any etc, etc
What there doesn't appear to be, is high-quality AACR2 / RDA records
available for these. There are things like
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/pg/ which are elaborate dublin core
to MARC converters, but these lack standardisation of names, authority
control (people, entities, places, etc), interlinking, etc.
It seems to me that quality metadata would greatly increase the value /
findability / use of these projects and thus their visibility and
available sources.
Are there any projects working in this space already? Are there suitable
tools available?
cheers
stuart
Received on Mon Aug 18 2014 - 18:05:33 EDT