Comment 72 for bug 236947

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George (george-archive) wrote :

Another feature request:

Comment: Hi Open Library,
>
> Thanks for providing such a great service to the world. We at the
> National
> Library of Australia are periodically downloading a full dump of your
> edition data, in JSON format. From this full dump, we would like to
> extract just the records where the full text is freely available online,
> for inclusion in our search engine Trove.
> http://trove.nla.gov.au/book/result?q=%22open+library%22&l-availability=y%2Ff&s=20
>
> We currently do this by checking for an ocaid, however we have noticed
> that this includes records where the only online content is a locked
> daisy
> format, which is not available to users in Australia.
>
> DAISY format example: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL352392M/Spin_cycle
>
> We would like some way to filter out these records, however currently
> they don't seem to include enough information to allow us to do this. Is it
> possible for you to include more information in your records so that we
> can identify these records? For example, perhaps the formats the item is
> available in could be included.
>
> Looking forward to your reply,
> Joanna Meakins and Kent Fitch
> Trove Team
> National Library of Australia