Hi Mek,
One simple first step would be to write a bot that would add the "full work available at (P953)" property to items with OL ids when the full text can be downloaded from OL.
This could potentially be part of a Wikidata version of the OAbot.
Is there any API endpoint which, given an OL id, tells if you have a free to read full text?
Best, Antonin
On 10/03/2017 23:45, Michael Karpeles wrote:
Hi friends,
I was just speaking to Asaf @ WMF about the road to pairing Wikipedia book articles to copies which are freely available and readable through the Internet Archive's Open Library.
Open Library has ~16M works and ~25M editions, about 1.8M of these editions are readable without any login. An additional several hundred thousand modern works are borrowable with an archive.org http://archive.org account.
I recognize that there are already tens of thousands of books on Wikidata (maybe more, now!) which have Open Library IDs (olids) -- e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P648. Asaf and I wondered whether a good first step might be to see how many of the readable works Open Library has are already on Wikidata.
TL;DR -- The Open Library team would love to help empower more wikipedia and wikidata users to access readable copies of books related to the content they're viewing. And we'd love to explore donating metadata to help improve the quality of Wikidata. What are the community's feelings on this, what existing efforts may exist (or have existed) which I should be aware of, and how do you recommend we proceed in a way which respects the community's policies and goals?
best wishes,
- mek
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