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My latest project is finally at beta. http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/
After an idea from Neil (S), I decided to look into making a genuine MySQL portal to ISBN details that is independent of any bookseller, gives only the results you need, can be queried remotely for HTML, XML, SQL or MARC output with a standard, static URL with a predictable query string and no cookies or Javascript. It's early days so far and the database is tiny but it'll grow in time.
Via sourceforge, I want to make this a distributed project because no one site can cover the whole area. So I'm looking for people with some LAMP webspace to follow the template at isbn.org.uk to create their own sites. The HTML pages are tiny but the database could get large, depending on your set-up and popularity.
Ordinary webspace probably won't do, you need a friendly sysadmin to install some source code packages and a couple of unusual Perl modules. All that info is on the sites.
Alternatively, there is a task at sourceforge waiting for anyone who IS able to install the toolkit on their own machine plus the modules and who is willing to use some of their bandwidth to help me find out which servers are actually functioning. No webspace changes required.
There's a sourceforge mailing list for anyone interested: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isbnsearch-devel
The sourceforge package is currently still at alpha - I'm hoping to update the package by the weekend.
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