[IAEP] PG Books

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 16:35, James Simmons <jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
> Elena,
>
> I used an online catalog that only contains title and author.  Gutenberg has
> another catalog in RDF format which has a log more information, and I may
> use that as a basis for my search some day. That would allow searches by
> subject, title, author, language, etc.  I realize this would be a lot more
> useful, but my time available for Python programming is just a few hours a
> week.  If I can get 80% of the benefit for 20% of the work that's what I'll
> do first.

That sounds awesome!

Some interesting info:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-May/614821.html

Regards,

Tomeu

> James Simmons
>
>
> Elena of Valhalla wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:15 PM, James Simmons
> <jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
>
>
> It is a fair statement to say that most PG books are in English.
> However, if you go to the PG website you can list out books in various
> languages, and there are a fair number in Spanish.
>
>
> I've had the reverse problem: I've searched a book as a test (Macbeth
> by Shakespeare) and had to download it in two different languages
> before I found the english text. Did I miss language informations
> somewhere in the activity, or are they missing?
>
> Usually the title would help, but cases like this where the title is
> the same in any translation are a significant minority, and I believe
> that either showing it or allowing to restrict searches by language
> should be useful.
>
>
>
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