[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Uploading Cover Images?

[Josh Stompro]

Another similar option would be to create or update entries in 
librarything, (http://www.librarything.com).  You could add the cover 
art and then use the librarything cover art service.  
http://www.librarything.com/blog/2008/08/million-free-covers-from-librarything.php  


It could be that there is some crossover between librarything and 
openlibrary, so by adding cover art to one it shows up in the other, but 
I'm just speculating... looks like maybe not.
"*In the past, we had been talking to the Open Libary 
<http://openlibrary.org/> project about a joint effort. We even sent 
them all our covers and a key to the identifiers that linked them. But 
nothing came of it. To some extent that was our fault, and to some 
extent not. (I think them and us would differ on the blame here.) In any 
case, I was tired of the time and transactional friction, and wanted to 
try a different approach." (from page above)

Josh

Dan Scott wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 08:44 -0500, Ryan wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>> It seems we have hit a bump in using Evergreen, we have a collection
>> of cook books that need to be cataloged. These cook books are
>> fundraiser cook books so they are not sold by Amazon or cataloged by
>> the Library of Congress. We can catalog the books with out a problem
>> but can we scan the cover images and upload them to our Evergreen
>> server? Where would these files have to be placed if so?
>>   
>>     
>
> You could catalog them in OpenLibrary (http://openlibrary.org/), upload
> the cover images there, and use the OpenLibrary added content plugin
> instead of Amazon
> (http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/src/perlmods/OpenILS/WWW/AddedContent/OpenLibrary.pm) - which didn't make it into 1.6.0.0, unfortunately, but should work as-is if you pull it directly from trunk.
>
>   

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