Re: Programmatically build a catalog database?

I wrote an Activity for the One Laptop Per Child project which includes a
text file listing all the books in PG and PG Australia.  The child using
the Activity can search through this list and download any of the books she
finds.  I didn't use the RDF feed but instead used the offline catalogs:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs

I wrote the code in Python and you can check it out here:

http://git.sugarlabs.org/readetexts

James Simmons

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Petite Abeille <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> (Hopefully this is the proper mailing list for such topic. Let me know
> otherwise.)
>
> I would like to build a local database of the Gutenberg catalog.
>
> The 'Gutenberg Feeds' page [1] lists the following resource to help
> achieve that programmatically:
>
> (1) All books in one huge file, in " superseded DCMI recommendation" format
> (2) A separate file for each book, in "current DCMI recommendation" format
> (3) A RSS Feed, in rss version="0.91" format
>
> So far:
>
> (1) sports all the Gutenberg assets, and is handy for the initial database
> build. But this looks a bit overkill for a day to day synchronization.
> (2) seems more appropriate than (1) for daily updates, but sports a
> different format: "current DCMI recommendation" vs. " superseded DCMI
> recommendation"
> (3) is a bit a blast from the past, but at least provides a list of new
> resources daily. Sadly there is no explicit link to (2), so one has to
> infer it from the <link> information.
>
> Questions:
>
> - Is there a version of (1) in the same format as (2)? Assuming the
> "current DCMI recommendation" is the canonical representation. That would
> save one from dealing with two different formats, or hacking (1) to get all
> the references to (2) and then hammer PG to get the individual files in
> format (2).
> - Why are (1) and (2) in different formats?
> - Is there an alternative feed that lists the rdf resource explicitly? An
> Atom feed perhaps?
>
> Apologies if these are FAQs, but I couldn't locate an unambiguous archive
> of this mailing list.
>
> Is GNAME a good proxy for the list postings?
>
> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.culture.literature.e-books.gutenberg.volunteers
>
> Alternatively, is there a more straightforward way to build a local
> database of PG's assets? Perhaps I'm missing something :)
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>
> Cheers,
>
> PA.
>
>
> [1] http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds
>
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