Website review: Open Library (Open Library)
chiefbroad discovered this in Open Source
•9 reviews since Jul 16, 2007
open-source, books
•demo.openlibrary.org
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chiefbroad discovered 10 months ago- "Imagine a library that collected all the world's information about all the world's books and made it available for everyone to view and update. We're building that library." from the Internet Archive
- msiegel rated 4 weeks ago
- good, has potential
- stevetempo rated 4 weeks ago
Another interesting on-line catalog to locate those hard to find books we all love...I like the feature that links to Worldcat and your local libraries...the book covers are nice too...only time and use will tell if it really fills an important function...happy searching!
- Arc-Angell rated 8 months ago
- Google has already created a good library so far.
- Kaess rated 10 months ago
- "Imagine a library that collected all the world's information about all the world's books and made it available for everyone to view and update. We're building that library." from the Internet Archive
- nicky187 rated 10 months ago
- Great idea.
- laudano rated 10 months ago
- Not that useful yet, but I hope it will be soon.
- laodan rated 10 months ago
- The Open Library via Metafilter / chunking express, in The Open Library
What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book's key part of our planet's cultural legacy. First, the library must be on the Internet. No physical space could be as big or as universally accessible as a public web site. The site would be like Wikipedia's public resource that anyone in any country could access and that others could rework into different formats. Second, it must be grandly comprehensive. It would take catalog entries from every library and publisher and random Internet user who is willing to donate them. It would link to places where each book could be bought, borrowed, or downloaded. It would collect reviews and references and discussions and every other piece of data about the book it could get its hands on. But most importantly, such a library must be fully open. Not simply "free to the people," as the grand banner across the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh proclaims, but a product of the people: letting them create and curate its catalog, contribute to its content, participate in its governance, and have full, free access to its data. In an era where library data and Internet databases are being run by money-seeking companies behind closed doors, it's more important than ever to be open. The Open Library A grandiose project that I hope succeeds. Try to imagine a place on the net where all the books of the world could be found. That's quite exciting indeed.
- The Open Library via Metafilter / chunking express, in The Open Library
