Unfortunately, until someone turns this into a library it's just a
random pile of books. There is metadata for searching but topical
discovery is very poor. Also, there is no collection statement to
indicate what is and is not included (nor is it clear that there is a
collection concept). It would take a huge effort, but, as I said
recently on Twitter, we should see this as raw material not a final
product as its usability is quite poor. Some first efforts might be to
use the existing metadata to connect this to Wikidata items and to
update Wikipedia entries with links to full text. There's also a very
large chaff-to-wheat sorting needed, as my first click turned up a bunch
of old meeting reports. If anyone has OCLC access it is perhaps
plausible that items could be sorted by the OCLC "most held" order
rather than whatever they are in now.
I have to say that I find it a bit embarrassing for this to called a
"library".
kc
On 3/24/20 11:59 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Pine W, 24/03/20 21:41:
Forwarding.
Thanks.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 3:55 PM Mark
Graham<mark(a)archive.org>Â wrote:
> On top of our efforts to add links to citations, in Wikipedia
> articles, to digital versions of referenced book available from
>
archive.org (150K books from 10 Wikipedia language editions and
> counting…)
>
> The Internet Archive just launched a National Emergency Library.
The announcement is at:
<http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/>
In short, now people can borrow 10 books instead of 5 and there seem to
be no limits on how many people can borrow a book at the same time. The
waitlists nearly vanished over the course of the last few days.
Federico
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