Datamob: literature

The New York Times Best Sellers API

Sat, 09 May 2009 19:56:51 -0400

Access data from all New York Times best-seller lists including rank history for specific best sellers. Four request types are available: get a best-seller list, search best-seller lists, get the history of a best seller and get the names of Times best-seller lists.

url: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/best_sellers_api

thingISBN

Sat, 09 May 2009 11:31:35 -0400

thingISBN is a simple API for discovering related editions from LibraryThing, which calls it a tool for "edition disambiguation." Give it an ISBN and it returns a list of other ISBNs—different formats, translations, and more in XML.

The entire dataset is also available in one feed at http://www.librarything.com/feeds/thingISBN.xml.gz.

For more information see the thingISBN category on the Thingology blog.

url: http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2006/06/introducing-thingisbn_14.php

LibraryThing Web Services API

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:21:56 -0400

RESTful XML-based API for querying the LibraryThing Common Knowledge database of interesting facts about books. Developer key required. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

See the announcement on LibraryThing for more information.

See also the LibraryThing Books API.

url: http://www.librarything.com/services/webservices.php

Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) API

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:54:07 -0400

RESTful API for querying the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network's database of "open knowledge" packages and projects.

url: http://www.ckan.net/api/rest/

LibraryThing Books API

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:12:15 -0400

JSON-based API for LibraryThing book data. Licensing is still being finalized.

url: http://www.librarything.com/blog/2008/07/introducing-librarything-books-api.php

BookMooch API

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:08:18 -0400

Query or download the database for BookMooch, a book exchange community. ASCII text and XML formats. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

url: http://bookmooch.com/api/

Open Library API

Sat, 24 May 2008 21:33:54 -0400

Query the Open Library database, the goal of which is to provide one web page for every book ever published.

url: http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api

Amazon ISBN Similarity Graph

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:36:18 -0400

Output of a crawl of Amazon.com's item similarity API from January 18, 2008 for ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers). ASCII text and XML. By Aaron Swartz.

url: http://www.archive.org/details/amazon_similarity_isbn/

Stanford Copyright Renewal Database

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:11:28 -0400

Downloadable dataset of 250,000 records on U.S. copyright renewal for books published between 1950 and 1995.

url: http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home

QuotationsBook Database

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:49:05 -0400

40,000+ quotations downloadable in XML format and available under a Creative Commons license.

url: http://quotationsbook.com/services/

Network Datasets Compiled by Mark Newman

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:05:56 -0400

A collection of network datasets drawn from studies of human social networks, dolphin social networks, works of literature, power grids, books, blogs and more. Compiled by Mark Newman, professor of physics at the University of Michigan.

url: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/netdata/

softcover

Sat, 09 May 2009 11:37:11 -0400

Softcover is kind enough to email you when books come out in paperback. By Jonathan Soma.

url: http://softcover.xoxosoma.com/

Ramazon

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:59:19 -0400

Ramazon uses the Flare Visualization Toolkit to create an interactive visualization of related items on Amazon.com. A follow-up to the Influence Viewer. By Martin Dudek.

url: http://goosebumps4all.net/ramazon/

Influence Viewer

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:43:02 -0400

Influence Viewer uses the Flare Visualization Toolkit to create an interactive visualization of the Influence domain in Freebase, showing who has influenced whom. By Martin Dudek.

url: http://goosebumps4all.net/goi/

Free Influencer

Sun, 25 May 2008 19:48:10 -0400

See who has influenced whom according to the Freebase database of notable people. By Albertine Meunier, Jérôme Alexandre and Cornelius Reed.

url: http://www.we-love-the.net/FreeInfluencer/

Amazon Book Map

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:58:57 -0400

Dense mosaic of over 700,000 book covers, color coded by book category and grouped together according to similarity. By Chris Harrison.

url: http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html