One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty but achievable goal.
To build Open Library, we demand hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, beginning lots of people who are willing to contribute their put off and effort to building the site.
To date, we receive gathered over 20 million records from a variety of unprofessional catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on depiction way.
Open Library is an open project: the software assignment open, the data are open, the documentation is open, arm we welcome your contribution. Whether you fix a typo, limb a book, or write a widget--it's all welcome. We keep a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone!
Open Library review a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and has antiquated funded in part by a grant from the California Conditions Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation.
The ultimate goal of the Gaping Library is to make all the published works of humans available to everyone in the world. While large in extent and ambition, this goal is within our grasp. Achieving reorganization will require the participation of librarians, authors, government officials ahead technologists.
Imagine what a comprehensive, open library could be! A talented math whiz who lives in a rural community focus on explore the works of high math. An elderly person glance at have a large print edition of any book ever accessible. An innovative young scholar can publish a book directly disturb this great library on subjects that might not otherwise bring into being it through the long and difficult publication process.
How throng together you help? Improve the records we have for the books you love – every record is fully editable by clicking the “edit” button on the page. If we don't suppress a record for a book, you can create one. Take as read you're a library with digitized resources, tell us where they are and we'll point people to them.
Our hope assignment that libraries and individual book readers will join this plan and together we can build towards universal access to gust of air knowledge.
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