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the open library (The Open Library)Created by Jeremy Hunsinger (Virginia Tech) on July 16, 2007
About Us First, the library must be on the Internet. No physical space could be as big or as universally accessible as a public web site. The site would be like Wikipedia—a public resource that anyone in any country could access and that others could rework into different formats. Second, it must be grandly comprehensive. It would take catalog entries from every library and publisher and random Internet user who is willing to donate them. It would link to places where each book could be bought, borrowed, or downloaded. It would collect reviews and references and discussions and every other piece of data about the book it could get its hands on. 000 sweet idea
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I wonder how different this is (is going to be) from what OCLC will wind up doing with http://www.worldcat.org/
well, i suspect it will not tend to center on librarian-centric assumptions and perhaps aim for more of a book or knowledge centric conceptual approach.