Re: Open Book Cover Images Database Dead?

From: Veronica Lencinas <lencinas_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 13:17:47 -0300
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
What about Wikimedia Commons?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/

Regards
Veronica Lencinas
Cordoba, Argentina


> Finally, to avoid this becoming another locked-in set of content (call
> me skeptical), I would really love to see the collection (images and
> metadata) made available via BitTorrent. This would enable libraries
> to spread the load, both by acting as BitTorrent seeds for the
> collection and by self-hosting the collection (the ultimate in
> caching). "coverthing" (or whatever this ends up getting called)
> wouldn't get deluged with http requests, so it could be built with far
> less infrastructure. And those interested in adding their own APIs to
> the collection would be able to innovate a little more freely.
>
> Dan
>
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