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And for good reason.. many of those requests involve a much higher level of maintenance (moderating content like reviews, building a social network, etc) I lik
by electriclove 6y ago
And for good reason.. many of those requests involve a much higher level of maintenance (moderating content like reviews, building a social network, etc)
I like that OpenLibrary is trying to be a source of open book data. But I am a bit concerned about the quality of the data (just a feeling as I am still digging into it but there are open questions on how to handle things like multiple authors, etc)
- mekarpeles 6y agoWe have a small network of librarians on a slack channel who have merged more than 10,000 duplicate works. Librarians (which is a permission role) also have the ability to merge Authors, so data improves over time. Furthermore, members of our community coordinate with Wikidata, VIAF, etc -- we match up identifiers and sync data (and in this way, bots are able to make meaningful changes in bulk on a rolling basis). See: http://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-bots http://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-bots (most of which are built using the OL client: http://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client http://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client) e.g. https://github.com/cdrini/openlibrary-wikidata-bot https://github.com/cdrini/openlibrary-wikidata-bot