OSBW Existing Software
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.
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://johnmiedema.ca/openbook-wordpress-plugin/
License: GNU GPL
Description: OpenBook WordPress Plugin inserts a book cover, title, author, and publisher in WordPress. It links to detailed book information in the data source, Open Library. OpenBook also links to the library record in WorldCat, and 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."
