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Re: [LUG] Anyone fancy helping?



On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 22:16, Neil Williams wrote:
> 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.
>

This sounds like a really interesting project. I'll get a machine setup for it 
as well :-)

David.


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