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Open Source Book Widgets

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== Invitation ==List of Existing Open Source Book Widget Software and Projects
We're just getting started on this. Please be bold and edit as you see fit. == Amazon Book Picture ==
== Suggested Pages =='''Author: '''Serhat Cinar
Main Page (this one)'''Plugin homepage:''' http://narcanti.keyboardsamurais.de/amazon- Purpose (of current collaboration)book- Table of Contents- Link to discussion list- Contactspicture.html
Statement of Interests- wide open list of things that interest people'''License:''' unknown
Defintion- what are open source '''Description:''' Include a simple tag with a books asin or isbn in your posts which is replaced by an image of that book widgetsfrom amazon.
Requirements/Use Cases
- maybe its a good idea to combine these two at this point, and separate later
- a list of things you want the book widgets to do
- non-technical
Existing Book Widget Software/Projects== Amazon Einzeltitellinks ==
Technical Issues'''Author: ''' Dietmar Mitterer-Zublasing '''Plugin homepage:''' http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/amazon- discussion 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 technical issuesany 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 [http://www.archive.org/details/texts 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 [http://crossref.org] 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." [[Category:Open Source Book Widgets]]
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