>
> Interesting, I didn't know that. Is this demo available somewhere?
Here is a demo of it up and running:
http://ol.fkbuild.com/w/index.php/Main_Page
Click edit and then click on the OL button on the tool bar and enter a
search item.
Also, I think someone I shared this with had trouble gettin
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Joshua Gay wrote:
>
> I think it would be easy to build upon this work and one could do a really
> powerful MW extension (and maybe some new templates, etc) that would allow
> people to contribute to both MW and OL simultaneously.
>
> I think that the OL should cont
Joshua Gay wrote:
> David Strauss did a quick implementation (basically a demo) of an
> OpenLibrary extension for MediaWiki. In very little amount of code, he was
> able to easily search the OL (via AJAX) and when the user selected a given
> result, it poppulated a Citation template. What was nice
David Strauss did a quick implementation (basically a demo) of an
OpenLibrary extension for MediaWiki. In very little amount of code, he was
able to easily search the OL (via AJAX) and when the user selected a given
result, it poppulated a Citation template. What was nice is that when no
results ca
Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Yann Forget wrote:
>
>> As I already said, the first steps would be to import existing
>> databases, and Wikimedians are very good at this job.
>
> Do you have a bibliographic database (library catalog) of French
> literature that you can upload? How many records? Convi
Yann Forget wrote:
> As I already said, the first steps would be to import existing
> databases, and Wikimedians are very good at this job.
Do you have a bibliographic database (library catalog) of French
literature that you can upload? How many records? Convincing
libraries to donate copies
Hello,
Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Yann Forget wrote:
>
>> This discussion is very interesting. I would like to make a summary, so
>> that we can go further.
>>
>> 1. A database of all books ever published is one of the thing
>> still missing.
>
> No, no, no, this is *not* missing. This is exactly t
Samuel Klein wrote:
> I think we agree on what needs to happen. The only thing I am
> not sure of is where you would like to see the work take place.
I'm not so sure we agree. I think we're talking about two
different things.
This thread started out with a discussion of why it is so hard to
Samuel Klein, 11/08/2009 07:00:
> Let's take a practical example. A classics professor I know (Greg
> Crane, copied here) has scans of primary source materials, some with
> approximate or hand-polished OCR, waiting to be uploaded and converted
> into a useful online resource for editors, translato
