[gutvol-p] Re: Gutenberg Catalogue RDF

Marcello Perathoner marcello at perathoner.de
Wed May 26 11:24:47 PDT 2010


William Waites wrote:
> On 10-05-26 16:22, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
>> catalog.rdf.bz2 gets updated every night.
> 
> Yes it does, but the information in there is very different from the
> individual files.

Not at all. The information is quite the same. (There's also author 
birth and death dates in the individual files, but otherwise its the same.)

> I attach records from the catalogue and from the individual file.
> 
> The biggest problem is,
> 
> <http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/catalog.rdf#etext27676>
> <http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27676>
> 
> are completely different. And there's no way (other than hand coding
> special cases
> to make it from one to the other). So even if we were to initially
> populate with
> catalog.rdf.bz2 we couldn't then go and pull the detailed records.

Why should you do that? The big file contains the same information as 
the individual ones.


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