I'm working on metadata for GITenberg. Documentation in progress:
https://github.com/gitenberg-dev/documentation/tree/master/metadata
https://github.com/gitenberg-dev/documentation/tree/master/metadata
At least the linking-works-to-Gutenberg aspects of this problem should be a lot
easier by the
Hey thanks everybody, I've been too busy to dig into any of your
suggestions but hugely appreciated. This group is awesome.
@Amanda, I actually remember signing up for Small Demons in beta and it
died before I got a chance to really explore it.
@Thomas, LibraryThing's charactername field looks
Salvete!
I declare this scriptable and doable, just not by me, since I can't
programme me way out of a wet paper bag. (Well, I prolly can at gunpoint, but
yeah, that's what it would take.)
So I have this idea I'd like to do for a hobby project, but it requires
finding a table that
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ISBNdb [1] was the closest thing I could find but is probably not filled out
enough for what you're wanting to do. I also found RDF Book Mashup [2] but it's
nowhere near as granular as you are talking
Another interesting startup in this area is Trajectory.
Here's a list of Classics/Fiction via their JSON API (doc=isbn):
http://api.trajectory.com/api/v1/search/?q=c=Fiction%20%2F%20Classicslimit=568
Here's a human readable view:
Salvete!
Is the Freebase data good enough for your purposes? It appears that it lists
the
most important characters first, but that may just be the order in which they
were added. You may not be able to rely on that sequence.
A Tale of Two Cities: http://www.freebase.com/m/09c55p
What you *did* need for this interesting project was Small Demons, which
was a for-profit company that was creating linked data from books --
here's an article about it:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/1/4043298/building-an-atlas-for-books-with-small-demons
But it shut down in 2013, and I
On 4/14/15 7:18 AM, Joel Marchesoni wrote:
It is a little disappointing that I couldn't find the IMDB of the literary
world.
Which reflects an interesting difference between books and movies --
movies have credits that list characters and actors. There are a few
books that include
The LibraryThing API could also be used to retrieve what they call Common
Knowledge tags, including character names but also place names etc.
Example:
https://www.librarything.com/services/rest/1.1/?method=librarything.ck.getworkid=2773690apikey=d231aa37c9b4f5d304a60a3d0ad1dad4
(using the example
If a peson could denote the characteristics of both the main (female) character
as well as the protagonist, then bits of natural language processing (text
mining) might be able to address this problem. —Eric “When You Have A Hammer,
Everything Begins To Look Like a Nail” Morgan
So I have this idea I'd like to do for a hobby project, but it requires
finding a table that lists a classic novel, a Gutenberg.org link to an
instance of that work (first listed, one with most downloads, whichever),
the lead female character, and the lead male character (can be null). E.g.
Pride
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So I have this idea I'd like to do for a hobby project, but it requires
finding a table that lists a classic novel, a Gutenberg.org link to an
instance of that work (first listed, one
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So I have this idea I'd like to do for a hobby project, but it requires
finding a table that lists a classic novel, a Gutenberg.org link to an
instance of that work (first
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