I did in fact use the GUTINDEX files.  The RDF files seem to contain lots of markup and very little information.  The GUTINDEX files are not perfect, but if you know how PG files are named and the formats you are likely to find for a given title they do the job.

You can see my Activity in action here:

http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4035

I do not have a list of PG related projects.

James Simmons


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

On Feb 19, 2013, at 8:10 PM, James Simmons <nicestep@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

You mean the "The GUTINDEX Listings of EBooks"?

At first glance these GUTINDEX look a bit less structured than the RDF format.

Or are you referring to the MARC Records? Which, according to that page, are generated from the XML/RDF catalog.

Also, that page refers to the "machine-readable format" as being the RDF catalog, so I don't mind using that.

> I wrote the code in Python and you can check it out here:
>
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/readetexts

Thanks for the pointer.

Would you know of a list of PG related projects by any chance?

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