BookFinder.com Journal

I’ve been a big fan of the Open Library project since I first heard about it last year. I enjoyed participating in the Open Library Developers Day last week, where a group of library- and book-industry friends-of-the-project learned and brainstormed about the project. Two attendees posted writeups:

• Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame
• William Denton, York University

I’m particularly impressed by the Open Library team’s ability to work with a wide variety of university and national libraries to collect book data, as well as their deep thinking around identifiers, open data exchange, APIs, etc. Expect good things from them.

[Now reading Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger]