![]() Just this Friday I spent most of my day working on updating our search engine, Solr, from 3.6 to 8.7 (wip!). The project is entirely open source, with an active community, so anyone can contribute fixes/features on GitHub: Īnd yeah, searching needs some work! That's on my task list for this month. if you want to learn more about Open Library, here's a short intro vid. Thank you all for helping us discover some issues with our goodreads importer and search (recently migrated to Python3 + thanks et al for these fast bug fixes! If you notice an problem, please help open an issue here: monthly data dumps for if you need bulk access and the APIs are not enough.Īlso, if you want to help raise awareness of this resource, please help us get the word out on twitter! We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone!įor anyone who wishes Open Library was even better, please join one of our weekly community calls 11:30am Pacific.įor an invite, please send me an email at or go to: ![]() Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a widget-it's all welcome. Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way. To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to building the site. One web page for every book ever published. On the face of it, their "about" page sounds appealing (not least because it resonates with my open source values): I recently discovered the by The Internet Archive.
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