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Subject:        [ol-tech] Latest OpenLibrary.org release
Date:   Wed, 07 May 2008 11:20:08 -0700
From:   Alexis Rossi <[log in to unmask]>
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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!
<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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