-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ol-tech] Latest OpenLibrary.org release Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 11:20:08 -0700 From: Alexis Rossi <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Openlibrary mailing list [log in to unmask] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openlibrary -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu