Welcome to Open Library (Open Library)

peter.suber's bookmarks 2016-08-01

Summary:

"One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty but achievable goal.

To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to building the site.

To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.

Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a widget--it's all welcome. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone! ..."

Link:

https://openlibrary.org/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.books oa.metadata oa.wikis oa.crowd oa.floss oa.code4oa oa.tools

Date tagged:

08/01/2016, 14:16

Date published:

08/01/2016, 10:16