{"id":4855,"date":"2010-08-03T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T15:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2010-08-05T11:53:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T09:53:43","slug":"the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/news\/the-library","title":{"rendered":"The Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our (virtual) bookshelves:<\/p>\n

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Download the list as .csv file: OSP-library_030810<\/a><\/p>\n

The OSP-library is a modest pile of books that we think is relevant to our practice. Some we have read<\/a> and others we should<\/a>. We’ll keep adding titles; suggestions welcome!<\/p>\n

After testing several ways to catalogue the collection, we settled with LibraryThing for the time being. It’s not ideal … though it is a good project (they allow users to export collections as .csv file (book data, no tags), use multiple sources for bibliographic data and have a sensible privacy policy) the software nor data is under a free license.<\/p>\n

We tried Alexandria<\/a> and than exported our booklist as a static html page but the amount of times the software crashed drove us insane. Also it is a bit disappointing that Alexandria almost completely relies on data from amazon.com. A rewrite is on it’s way so we are looking forward to that. We most of all want to use http:\/\/www.openlibrary.org<\/a>, a project initiated by http:\/\/www.archive.org<\/a>. We like their concept “a wiki page for each book<\/em>” and the site contains a fair amount of information already. For posts on individual books, we started to use a plugin<\/a> that can pull data from http:\/\/www.openlibrary.org<\/a>. But we’ll need a bit of patience before jumping ship: the team is currently working on adding the indispensable feature that allows us to make lists. And the ability to import data from file would be nice too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our (virtual) bookshelves: Download the list as .csv file: OSP-library_030810 The OSP-library is a modest pile of books that we think is relevant to our practice. Some we have read and others we should. We’ll keep adding titles; suggestions welcome! After testing several ways to catalogue the collection, we settled with LibraryThing for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4901,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions\/4901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}