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Karen - I've been wondering about this lately, digging around in code at github, noticing a lot of somewhat aging commit dates, etc. I am joining the ol-tech list and will ask there, too, but given your history with the project, do you have a sense of whether IA folks might welcome a modest influx of attention from willing volunteers to help maintain and improve the service? -Dan On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > There is an open library list: [log in to unmask] and some API users do answer there. However, Open Library is not currently staffed/supported by the Archive. It's kept running but I'm not clear on the future. > > kc > > On 1/21/13 5:04 PM, David Fiander wrote: >> I'm working on a project that involves collecting information about the >> books that people own, and the easiest way to do most of that data >> collection is to collect just the ISBNs for those books that have them, and >> photograph the title pages of the books that don't. This gets me out of >> people way quickly and lets me do my data processing later. >> >> I've asked OCLC about the requirements for getting an affiliate ID for >> using their APIs for the project, but while I'm waiting for that, I'm >> looking at the Open Library APIs. >> >> The documentation for the APIs is weak, and it looks like it hasn't been >> updated for a while. Has anybody used them much, or know what the state of >> ongoing development of them is? >> >> All I'm really looking for at this point is a way to convert an ISBN into >> basic bibliographic data, and to find any related ISBNs, a la OCLC's xISBN >> service. >> >> - David > > -- > Karen Coyle > [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net > ph: 1-510-540-7596 > m: 1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet