Open Library
| Open Library | |
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Open Library homepage in September 2011
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| Web address | openlibrary.org |
| Slogan | One web page for every book. |
| Commercial? | no |
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Type of site
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Digital library index |
| Registration | free |
| Available in | English |
| Launched | 2006 |
| Revenue | donation |
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Alexa rank
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 16,427 (April 2014[update])[1] |
| Current status | Active |
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz,[2][3] among others, Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation.
Contents
Book database and digital lending library[edit]
Its book information is collected from the Library of Congress, other libraries, and Amazon.com, as well as from user contributions through a Wiki-like interface.[3] If books are available in digital form, a button labelled "Read" appears next to its catalog listing. Links to where books can be purchased or borrowed are also provided.
There are different entities in the database:
- authors
- works (which are the aggregate of all books with the same title and text)
- editions (which are different publications of the corresponding works)
Open Library claims to have 6 million authors and 20 million books (not works), and about one million public domain books available as digitized books.[4] Tens of thousands of modern books were made available from 4[5] and then 150 libraries and publishers[6] for digital lending.
Technical[edit]
Open Library began in 2006 with Aaron Swartz as the original engineer and leader of Open Library's technical team.[2][3] The project was led by George Oates from April 2009 to December 2011.[7] Oates was responsible for a complete site redesign during her tenure.[8]
The site was redesigned and relaunched in May 2010. Its codebase is on GitHub.[9] The site uses Infobase, its own database framework based on PostgreSQL, and Infogami, its own Wiki engine written in Python.[10] The source code to the site is published under the Affero General Public License, version 3.[11][12]
Books for the blind and dyslexic[edit]
The website was relaunched adding ADA compliance and offering over 1 million modern and older books to the print disabled in May 2010[13] using the DAISY Digital Talking Book.[14] Under federal law in the United States, libraries are allowed to make copyrighted books available to people with disabilities so newer titles can become available.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
- Online Computer Library Center – creator of WorldCat
- LibraryThing
- Google Book Search
- Amazon.com
- OPAC
- Free Software licensing
- List of AGPL web applications
References[edit]
- ^ "Openlibrary.org Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- ^ a b "A library bigger than any building". BBC News. 2007-07-31. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
- ^ a b c Grossman, Wendy M (2009-01-22). "Why you can't find a library book in your search engine". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2010-07-06.
- ^ About Us (Open Library)
- ^ Digital Lending Launch
- ^ In-Library eBook Lending Launched
- ^ George (Open Library)
- ^ http://blog.openlibrary.org/2010/03/17/announcing-the-open-library-redesign/
- ^ OpenLibrary source code on GitHub
- ^ About the Technology (Open Library)
- ^ Developers / Licensing — Open Library
- ^ LICENSE file on the OpenLibrary GitHub repository
- ^ Brooke Donald, Associated Press, in U-T San Diego, May 4, 2010
- ^ "Welcome to Daisy Books for the Print Disabled". Internet Archive. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
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