Open Library

Integration with Project Gutenberg

Bug #353653 reported by Jeroen Hellingman
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Open Library
New
Medium
Edward Betts
Open Library general-bucket

Bug Description

(Feature request) Would it be possible to link to Project Gutenberg eBooks when available. A feed of PG etext catalog-entries is available here: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds

I am willing to assist if help is needed, as well as work on resolving integration issues on the Project Gutenberg side. (Such as adding pointers into OpenLibrary from PG ebook records. Note that PG considers its ebooks new editions, which deserve a new entry, but that often we also have information on the source used (only older books do not have this information.)

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Edward Betts (edwardbetts) wrote :

We should link from works to Project Gutenberg. We don't have works live on the production site yet, they're only on staging.

George (george-archive)
Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: nobody → George (george-archive)
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George (george-archive) wrote :

Hi Jeroen,

Sorry it's taken me a while to find this... (The bug was created before I started at OL.)

We'd love to have PG books on Open Library! I think there's a way we might be able to do it soon too.

One thing we're working on is allowing Open Library records to accumulate identifiers from various other systems. For now we only collect ISBN, LCCN, LC, Dewey and a couple of others. The idea is that the more identifiers we can collect, the more connectors we might provide between various systems.

The Internet Archive is also working on another thing we're calling "BookServer" - the idea is a distributed vending and lending system over the Internet, where publishers or booksellers can release a feed out onto the web that's aggregated by a service like Open Library. People try a search of these aggregated feeds on something like Open Library, and then are directed back to the origin... in your case, Project Gutenberg. There *might* be a way we could morph the feeds you already issue into BookServer, but I'm not the right person to answer that.

In any case, a goal for Open Library would be to represent any and all sources of actual copies of books for reading, buying or borrowing whenever someone is looking at our records. PG is definitely one of those sources :)

George (george-archive)
Changed in openlibrary:
milestone: none → general-bucket
importance: Undecided → Medium
George (george-archive)
Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: George (george-archive) → Edward Betts (edwardbetts)
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Edward Betts (edwardbetts) wrote :

The MARC record for http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7216 is bad. Probably because of the Chinese characters.

leader: 00617cam a22002053a 4500
000 7216
003 PGUSA
008 050101s2005||||xxu|||||s|||||000 | chi d
040 $aPGUSA$bchi
042 $adc
100 1 $a公孫龍子$q(Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ)
245 10 $a公孫龍 (Gōngsūn Lóng) $h[electronic resource] /$cby 公孫龍子
260 $bProject Gutenberg,$c2005
500 $bProject Gutenberg,$c2005
506 $aProject Gutenberg
516 $aFreely available.
740 $aElectronic text0 $aGong Sun Long (Thought of Gongsun Longzi)
830 0 $aProject Gutenberg$v7216
856 0 $aProject Gutenberg$v721640$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7216
856 42 $uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/license$3Rights

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