Library Cataloging
The other day I asked for suggestions about where to get book covers to include in the cataog. One comment suggest BookChaser.com.
- Free Covers From Librarything
LibraryThing is making nearly one million book covers available for free. It is pretty simple coding to grab them. Thanks Tim et al.Update 12 Aug. 2008 I just added 37 links to covers from a page and none of the items had covers in LibraryThing. One million...
- Librarything Api
Tim Spalding has released an API for LibraryThing.I just released a Javascript/JSON API to LibraryThing core work data. http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/03/first-cut-works-json-api.php It's basically a riff on what Google did recently?a...
- Librarything's Isbn Feed.
LibraryThing has created a feed of the ISBNs in their system. Now you can compare your holdings to theirs. Since there is talk of LibraryThing making available book covers and tags this would be a good first step, check to see just how much match there...
- Rdf Book Mashup
RDF Book Mashup is a semantic Web tool for bibliographic items.The RDF book mashup demonstrates how Web 2.0 data sources like Amazon, Google or Yahoo can be integrated into the Semantic Web.The RDF book mashup makes information about books, their authors,...
- Library Thing
An interesting personal cataloging site is, Library Thing. It allows a person to enter 200 books for free or an unlimited number for 10.00. It get the cataloging information from the Library of Congress or allows the user to manually input the data. Then...
Library Cataloging
Book Covers
The other day I asked for suggestions about where to get book covers to include in the cataog. One comment suggest BookChaser.com.
This is an experimental tool that lets people compare what book covers are available through different APIs. It uses four underlying services to lookup that information: LibraryThing's covers API, OpenLibrary's JSON API, Amazon's Associates Web Service and Google's Books API.Thanks for the suggestion.
Amazon web services are used in compliance with their terms. LibraryThing API is used with permission of LibraryThing.com. Google's Book API is used in compliance with their terms.
- Free Covers From Librarything
LibraryThing is making nearly one million book covers available for free. It is pretty simple coding to grab them. Thanks Tim et al.Update 12 Aug. 2008 I just added 37 links to covers from a page and none of the items had covers in LibraryThing. One million...
- Librarything Api
Tim Spalding has released an API for LibraryThing.I just released a Javascript/JSON API to LibraryThing core work data. http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/03/first-cut-works-json-api.php It's basically a riff on what Google did recently?a...
- Librarything's Isbn Feed.
LibraryThing has created a feed of the ISBNs in their system. Now you can compare your holdings to theirs. Since there is talk of LibraryThing making available book covers and tags this would be a good first step, check to see just how much match there...
- Rdf Book Mashup
RDF Book Mashup is a semantic Web tool for bibliographic items.The RDF book mashup demonstrates how Web 2.0 data sources like Amazon, Google or Yahoo can be integrated into the Semantic Web.The RDF book mashup makes information about books, their authors,...
- Library Thing
An interesting personal cataloging site is, Library Thing. It allows a person to enter 200 books for free or an unlimited number for 10.00. It get the cataloging information from the Library of Congress or allows the user to manually input the data. Then...