I imagine, at very least for works which are in the public domain, that we
feel more strongly about people having access to the books (and in a format
which is valuable to them) than what reader is used. Thanks for raising an
important usability question, GerardM.
best wishes,
- mek
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Hoi,
> Why is it that we do not have our own frontend to provide books to our
> readers? This is of particular importance to the people who do not read
> English but Malayalam or Konkani, or Gujarati or ..
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> On 11 March 2017 at 00:45, Michael Karpeles <michael.karpeles(a)gmail.com>
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 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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