{"id":2117,"date":"2007-07-16T23:15:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=369"},"modified":"2007-07-16T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T04:15:08","slug":"the-open-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/16\/the-open-library.html","title":{"rendered":"The Open Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Open Library<\/a> is a project I have been hoping for years that someone would start – an open source universal book catalog.\u00a0\u00a0 Think WorldCat meets Wikipedia meets Amazon and you won’t be far off.<\/p>\n

So go to their demo site<\/a>, do a couple of searches.\u00a0 Their data is sketchy in places, but this means you have an opportunity to try out their editing interface.\u00a0 I just corrected the title for “John Irving : Three Complete Novels<\/a>” (you can look at the history for “revision 2”), although my change may not be the final word, as this seems like a possible duplicate<\/a>.\u00a0 The wonders of a wiki!<\/p>\n

This project, if it grows wings or even legs, will truly remake our digital presence.\u00a0 From Open Library Numbers (OLNs)<\/a> to user corrections and additions, this merger of open source and books gives us both freedom and control of our cataloging information.<\/p>\n

from Alexis Rossi via Next Generation Catalog for Libraries (ngc4lib)<\/a> newsgroup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Open Library is a project I have been hoping for years that someone would start – an open source universal book catalog.\u00a0\u00a0 Think WorldCat meets Wikipedia meets Amazon and you won’t be far off. So go to their demo … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2921,2943,2944,2951,2954,2982,2979],"tags":[3538,3539,3540],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-libraries","category-library-20","category-online-databases","category-open-access","category-open-source","category-wiki","tag-alexis-rossi","tag-demo-site","tag-open-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-y9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}