Hi Magnus and others,
> Partial answer: In the Koha community there has been decreasing
> interest in Amazon because of this requirement (or people being unsure
> about what the requirements actually are). Open Library seems to be
> the main contender to replace it:
> http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers
>
> You can see it in action here:
> http://head.bibkat.no/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=lessig
Any ideas how the Open Library jackets coverage compares to Amazon?
Roughly - good / bad / awful? Interested from an academic library
perspective.
I'm interested in Open Library as I don't have much scope for altering
how our NG catalog acquires images. Being able to GET an image by IBSN and
it returning a 1x1 px gif if there's nothing available is ideal.
Main benefit (for us) would be Open Library dealing with ISBN-13 whereas
Amazon requires ASIN i.e. ISBN-10.
Best wishes,
Andrew
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Andrew Preater
Information Systems Manager
Senate House Libraries
University of London
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Received on Tue May 29 2012 - 21:30:51 EDT