Simon Willison’s Weblog

A new leaf. George Oates is now heading up the Open Library project at the Internet Archive. Sounds like a perfect match.

# 28th April 2009, 12:55 am / openlibrary, george-oates, internet-archive

ThingDB. Another extensible key/value pair data store, constructed for the Open Library based on Aaron Swartz’s Infogami technology.

# 17th July 2007, 10:21 am / infogami, openlibrary, aaron-swartz, thingdb, python, postgresql

About Us (The Open Library). I’m a complete sucker for massively ambitious “make the world a better place” projects. Let’s hope this one has legs.

# 16th July 2007, 11:40 pm / openlibrary