Open Library Upgrades
There have been some great upgrades to the Open Library that I want to bring to your attention. This from the Open Library Mailing List:
Open Library has been upgraded to new software with lot of improvements.
* Readable URLs.
Title of the book/name of the author is now part of the URL.
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL20463982M/The-Adventures-of-Tom-Sawyer
http://openlibrary.org/a/OL5991132A/Mark-Twain* Better default cover images
The default cover images now look more beautiful with title of the book on the cover.
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL20463982M/The-Adventures-of-Tom-Sawyer
* improved type system
With the improvements to the type system, it becomes easier to model more complex data like table of contents.
example: http://openlibrary.org/b/OL7407773M/LaTeX
* More APIs
New RESTful API is carefully designed to make it easier to access the data in fewer requests with support for javascript callback to use it directly in the client-side.
http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/restful_api
There is even a python library for accessing the API.
http://github.com/openlibrary/olapi
Along with these APIs, John Miedema’s OpenBook wordpress plugin has been implemented in pure javascript using OL Books API.