Search for an author

[osfameron]

Just using Postgres full text search for now.

[osfameron]

Or... getting author details from some API or wikipedia data dump?

[osfameron]

• https://www.goodreads.com/api/index#search.authors
• http://wiki.dbpedia.org/data-set-38
• https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::ISBNDB::API::Authors
• http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/datafree.html
• http://www.librarieshacked.org/
  • via http://apievangelist.com/2014/07/14/libraries-hacked-uk-library-api-data-and-technology-hacks/
• https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/search
• https://developers.google.com/books/docs/v1/using?hl=en
• https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Scraper::ISBN::Driver (by barbie)

[osfameron]

• look at the MARC:: modules on cpan? But where do you get MARC records from?
• LibreCat http://librecat.org/ data management tools for librarians in Perl
  • interesting stuff on federated RDF queries in https://librecatproject.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/matching-authors-against-viaf-identities/
  • http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2015/06/09/federated-sparql-queries-in-your-browser/
  • https://metacpan.org/pod/Catmandu::RDF