A breadcrumb trail of project notes
I’m now (since November) working at the Internet Archive. Been interested in the place for years — great to be aboard. Currently working in the nascent Access Group helping to improve access to the Archive’s remarkable store of human knowledge
The Archive now has more than one million searchable and downloadable books. These books can be read online and I’m working on improvements to our online book reader.
Here’s an example of our beta embeddable book reader:
You can also read a copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from 1900 or John Muir’s Travels in Alaska. Just two examples out of many books available!
If you want to use the bookreader or embed it on your site you can see the technical documentation. It’s open source and the book data is open too. It’s all part of the Archive’s vision of universal access to human knowledge.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
What kind of stuff are you working on there?
Also: Hi! Long time no see!
February 10th, 2009 at 12:01 am
Right now I’m working on our online bookreader. Recently added support for some books with different image formats than the ones we’ve scanned. Here’s an example of a book I helped get online: http://www.us.archive.org/GnuBook/?id=cu31924003996125#151
Hello!