Hebrew books entries to Calibre

[Amichai Rotman]

I am all for it!

How do we do this?

I have some free time now, I am willing to do the data entry. i'll start
with my books (have quite a few of them).

I just need help to set it up - where will it be hosted? What do I use as a
server side app?

If anyone sends me links to resources and provides the hosting, I am willing
to do the rest...

Thanks!

Amichai.


On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:59, E L <elylevy at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> It's not complicated to write a plugin to Calibre that does what you want.
> But personally I don't like working for commercial companies for free.
> I think the right thing to do is to go the cddb way of making a free
> database
> for books and dana codes. I don't trust a company to not all the sudden
> change their mind and decide to ask for money.
>
> Ely
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just a quick recap:
>>
>> I would like to add my 300~ Hebrew books to by Calibre [1] catalog. I
>> already add most of my English books. The "problem" with Hebrew books is
>> that they have no ISBN (almost all of the new ones) but the Israeli
>> equivalent - D.A.N.A. Code.
>> Currently, there is no way to freely query the D.A.N.A. Code database.
>> This code is provided and the database is maintained by a private company
>> called Dana Code Systems [2].
>>
>> I understand it is easy enough to write a plugin to extend Calibre's
>> capabilities, so I thought maybe we (as in the FOSS community in Israel) can
>> write that plugin and query the database. I called Dana Code Systems
>> and spoke with Uri - a developer.
>>
>> He says it's not a problem to query their data base for book info, but the
>> info included is intended for book shops and book distributors: Price,
>> category, author - no book cover or summery.
>>
>> He is willing to grant us query access to the data base if I convince him
>> it will be worth while for his company from a business point of view, i.e.:
>> They will provide the access in return for paying customers, being a private
>> company and all...
>>
>> Dana Code Systems sells a year subscription to access their data base.
>> They once considered populating the DB with the missing data (cover image,
>> summery etc.), and even found a Librarian that was willing to do the data
>> entry, but they dropped it due to financial reasons.
>>
>> In short, any of you can think of a way we can, as a community, make this
>> happen?
>>
>> I am willing to help, but I am no developer, just a Linux user... :-)
>>
>> Uri is waiting for an e-mail from me, with my suggestion.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Amichai.
>>
>> [1] http://calibre-ebook.com/
>> [2] http://www.danacode.co.il/
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:57, E L <nakeee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Do you know any site that can be used to get the information by the
>>> D.A.N.A code?
>>>
>>> Ely
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dana Code is the Israeli equivalent to ISBN.
>>>>
>>>> Pick up any Hebrew book from your bookshelf and look on the back cover,
>>>> where the barcode is.
>>>> On Aug 24, 2011 10:09 PM, "E L" <nakeee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > There are Hebrew books which don't have ISBN number?
>>>> > And what's a dana code? I can't find it on google?
>>>> >
>>>> > Ely
>>>> >
>>>> > 2011/8/24 Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>
>>>> >
>>>> >> Dana Systems
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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