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Two-way web pushes door to information wide open.
Byline: dt
Two-way web pushes door to information wide open
The Open Library project came up for discussion on the newly refurbed Talis Library Gang podcast. A year in and the dream holds, even if we users still have to content ourselves with a demo.
It's interesting, isn't it, how appealing "free" is. Start any discussion with "XYZ should be free" and everyone has to agree: "Food should be free." "Hear, hear!" But then the niggling doubts creep in, such as how will farmers be paid?
And that's the status of the Open Library. Its dream is to make information on books available to all and sundry. It's even putting full texts online when it can. It's close to defining APIs (application programming interfaces) so that developers can grab information from the database.
The model is similar to Wikipedia with a page per book, but the Open Library wiki will allow for structured entries. The world at large will provide information to the database, the development of which is funded through donations and grants.
Once the system goes live, it should not be expensive to run, and can be financed through a combination of donations and commercial activities, such as printing on demand and commissions from Amazon referrals.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Two-way web pushes door to information wide open.