I sort of agree with this, but unfortunately no part of their
announcement links to Open Library, just to this:
https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary
Open Library (
https://openlibrary.org) has some good features (full
disclosure: I was on the original OL team at the Archive) but it doesn't
solve the wheat/chaff problem - something that all large libraries have.
It also doesn't have a way to provide a useful order of retrievals,
which is also the case for the Google Books site (OCLC uses numbers of
holdings, which is pretty good, but no one else has access to that data).
I would love to see curated collections from these book databases. Open
Library has lists, but they are personal lists and not well managed. How
can we create useful collections from these online materials?
I'll mention that one project I did was comparing the holdings in a
public library to the Open Library open access books so that the library
could offer unlimited access to books where they would generally have
only a few hard copy items. This was in keeping with the sense of their
collection but also expanded access. If we could link from digitized
copies to library collections that would be a huge gain. It solves the
wheat/chaff problem, although not the ranking one. The problem there is
matching works/expressions (ISBN is not good enough).
Anyway, onward - and if anyone wishes to manage a project, please post
widely as I think a crowd-sourced solution is much needed.
kc
On 3/26/20 2:12 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Karen Coyle, 26/03/20 17:44:
Unfortunately, until someone turns this into a
library it's just a
random pile of books.
I think the general idea is that
archive.org is indeed the "pile of
books" while the actual library (aspirationally) is
openlibrary.org.
Looking at the collection on
archive.org is like looking at the
compactus room or the inventory books.
Federico
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