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Latest revision as of 00:47, 15 September 2009
List of Existing Open Source Book Widget Software and Projects
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Amazon Book Picture
Author: Serhat Cinar
Plugin homepage: http://narcanti.keyboardsamurais.de/amazon-book-picture.html
License: unknown
Description: Include a simple tag with a books asin or isbn in your posts which is replaced by an image of that book from amazon.
Amazon Einzeltitellinks
Author: Dietmar Mitterer-Zublasing
Plugin homepage: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/amazon-einzeltitellinks/
License: unknown
Description: Includes book cover and link (option: with amazon partner id) to amazon in blog posting.
Amazon Ottawa Public Library Linky
Author: Bryan Larson
Plugin homepage: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24035
License: unknown
Description: Search the Ottawa Public Library Catalog from Amazon book listings
Amazon Showcase Wordpress Widget
Author: Aaron Forgue
Plugin homepage: http://aaronforgue.com/projects/amazon-showcase
License: GNU GPL
Description: Amazon Showcase is a Wordpress Widget/Plugin for showcasing items from Amazon. Simply enter the ASIN/ISBN numbers of any products and optionally enter an Associate ID for earning commissions. The product image will be displayed with a link to the product detail page on Amazon.com.
bookdatadownloader
Author: Mike Beccaria
Homepage: http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader
License: GNU General Public License v3
Description: Python software that reads a text file containing ISBN numbers and uses them to query Open Library and Google Book Search for book information from the respective libraries and adds them to a MYSQL database. Also downloads and processes book thumbnail covers.
More information can be found in Mike's article in Code4Lib Journal: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1009
Internet Archive Flipbook
Author: Internet Archive
Homepage: http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader
License: GNU Affero GPL
Description: The Internet Archive Flipbook reader is an online bookreader that can be used standalone or embedded in a webpage. It is designed to work with the books made available through Archive.org but can also be adapted for use with books in other formats.
ISBN2WP
Author: Christian Hauschke
Plugin homepage: http://infobib.de/blog/2008/08/20/isbn2wp-alpha-release/
License: GNU GPL
Description: The plugin grabs bibliographic data (Dublin Core) the Common Union Catalogue via SRU, adds a search link to GVK via SeeAlso (I currently use isbn2gso) and includes a OpenUrl COinS.
Openbook Wordpress Plugin
Author: John Miedema
Plugin homepage: http://code.google.com/p/openbook4wordpress/
Author homepage: http://johnmiedema.ca
License: GNU GPL
Description: OpenBook WordPress Plugin inserts a book cover, title, author, and other book data in WordPress. It links to detailed book information in the data source, Open Library. Users have complete control over the display using templates. OpenBook can link directly to a library's catalogue records by configuring an OpenURL resolver. OpenBook inserts COinS so that other applications like Zotero can pick up the book data. OpenBook is useful for book reviewers, book bloggers, library webmasters, anyone who to put book covers and other book data on their WordPress website.
Research Blogging and CrossRef
Author: CrossRef (?)
Plugin homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crossref-cite/
License: GNU GPL
Description: Look up a reference at [1] and include DOI citation in blog posting.
unAPI Server for WordPress
Author: Mike Giarlo, Peter Binkley
Plugin homepage: http://lackoftalent.org/michael/blog/unapi-wordpress-plug-in/
License: GNU GPL
Description: The unAPI Server is a WordPress plug-in implementing the final version of the unAPI specification, "a tiny HTTP API for the few basic operations necessary to copy discrete, identified content from any kind of web application."
