eshellman
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5 years ago Welcome @aaferrari! The reason we use LC classifications is that when there is question, we can just look up the book or classification in a library database - LOC. So, for example books on Mycology https://www.loc.gov/search/?in=&q=Mycology&new=true&st= are classified in 'SB' or 'QR' in addition to 'QK'. We're not classification experts so use of a third party classification is needed.
The listing style (and the linter) is inherited from free-programming-books. There are many free books that are HTML or available in multiple formats. I prefer fewer links per book because every link adds to maintenance overhead.
the JSON dump looks useful!
I recently discovered that the Spanish National Research Council (or CSIC for short) has several books to download but I have doubts about how to include it in the lists so I want to raise this here before adding something.
To begin with, the site has its own system of categories, which are:
Besides that, the books are usually in one of these "collections" that can help to categorize them better:
As you can see, there are categories and collections of which I am not sure which is their equivalent in the LCCO system classification so I would appreciate any help or correction on this.
Another question I have is about how I should add the books. Seeing the list of books in English would normally be something like this:
Although I think the most appropriate would be this way:
All the books are in pdf to download so the first link goes to the CSIC description page and the second is the pdf itself, what do you think? I see that this was also discussed in #10 but there does not seem to be a clear consensus on this.
Other particularities I have noticed are:
If someone wants to do tests I made a script to extract the data from those books and a dump in JSON with the generated information.