Book Hunters¶

https://github.com/fchasen/bookhunters

Team Members¶

Fred, Luis, Sonali

Problem and Overview¶

When we search for books on the internet, we are often overwhelmed with results coming from various sources in both physical and digital locations. Futhermore, it’s difficult to get direct trusted urls to books. Project Gutenberg, HathiTrust and Open Library, all provide an extensive library of books online, each with their own large repositories. By combining their catalogs, Book Hunters enables querying for a book across those different sources, our project will also highlight key statistics about the three datasets which will make it easier for the user to choose the library that best meets their needs.

Data sources¶

Open Library - http://openlibrary.org/

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.

HathiTrust - http://www.hathitrust.org/

HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than sixty partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide.

Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. All books in Gutenberg are in Public Domain and may exist across the format spectrum from simple plain text to mp3.