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Yep. The RDF/XML data. I have a mirror of it on github: https://github.com/sethwoodworth/PG_rdf_metadata

I would love to have a complete python parser for the metadata. I strongly recommend collaborating with the Gutenberg package posted to HN a few weeks ago (and his rdf branch): https://github.com/c-w/Gutenberg/tree/migrate-to-rdf

GITenberg has a mailing list and would love to have you!

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gitenberg-project

This is a fantastic overview of this part of the publishing space. GITenberg has a mailing list, and needs to start collecting breakdowns like this. I would love it if you would join us: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gitenberg-project

GITenberg has a mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gitenberg-project

And there has been some conversation about the project on the OKFN-humanities list: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-humanities

OKFN is organizing a skype call about the project on the 1st of September 6pm UK time that will be announced on the humanities list in the next few days.

If folks are interested in contributing, the mailing list is here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gitenberg-project

There are a number of transcription errors in many books. There is an example PR https://github.com/GITenberg/Chess-Strategy_5614/pull/1

Gah! This website was thrown up quickly. I wasn't intending to post to HN until after I had fixed up the website. Someone beat me too it :-S

Pull requests welcome: https://github.com/GITenberg/gitenberg.github.com

The main thing that GITenberg could provide authors is a toolset and workflow for using git to store books, and some kind of toolchain to turn them into epub or print-ready pdf.

That toolchain is something I effectively have to build for GITenberg anyway.

Because parsing the original metadata from Project Gutenberg is time consuming to write. I wasn't going to submit it to HN until I had an index/search api, but someone beat me to it.

It's all checked into git now, and I have an API to fetch the repo names via github's api. Migrating from github to self-hosted would now be easier than doing it from scratch.

Github does have issues with Unicode repo names, so it may be worth moving elsewhere for that reason.

But in the short term, I like Github because they have the most to gain by making git easy to use. If I can get away with people editing books in their browsers on github then we have a editing/rendering toolchain right out of the box!

GITenberg is more of a reference to Project Gutenberg at this point than Johannes. But no, I didn't know that at the time :-(

I would love to help standardize this workflow, but it has to be a community process and discussion. I'm meeting with the inkling folks sometime next week to collect more information.

re: Metadata. I'm slowly working on that problem. I'm a HUGE fan of purple numbers.

I can't think of a VCS with a better online tool than git and github. With editing books, it is entirely possible to use only the github editor, which effectively abstracts the git command line interface.

In retrospect, I didn't need to make 80k+ commits with my own account.

Idea first, pun after. But thanks!

PGDP does a series of passes on a book. They don't continually update it. If a book makes it through their process with a typo, or more common, made it through the transcription process 20 years ago, there aren't good systems in place to fix those issues.

This is a pretty small python module at the moment. To fetch metadata, it downloads a 230mb zip from PG and parses it for a few categories. Project Gutenberg has some metadata about Subject, but the info is inconsistent, but there is sometimes a Library of Congress code in the metadata.

Not all books have an html version. Most PG books are plaintext, and _some_ have a separate html variant. A handful are written in a markup language that can become html or plaintext.

To better differentiate from Project Gutenberg, GIT + Gutenberg. Case is ambigious on github, so I can change it later without breaking anyone's URLs.

I think the previous version of the metadata included a path to the ftp server. Splitting the book id (4443 -> 4/4/4/4443) works for _most_ books, but there were somewhere between 800 and 3000 books organized in a different folder structure that I still need to track down.

The github repos are intended to collect issues and received pull requests. Project Gutenberg doesn't have a public bugtracker, nor do they use version control.

This is fantastic!

I just made a github repo for each Gutenber book: https://github.com/GITenberg

This will be very helpful, the XML/RDF files are a hassle.

Maintained by Tron guy! <3<3<3

Slippery slope argument? Really?

Justine Tunney is not the founder of the Occupy movement.

This licensing terms of this article is not compatible with the GPL or the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

Chromium is packaged in Ubuntu and Debian. It's not packaged in Fedora because Chromium forked a half-dozen libraries [instead of pushing changes upstream](http://ostatic.com/blog/making-projects-easier-to-package-wh...). Of course, none of these are 'fully free' distros.

Congratulations, you are a bigot.

I disagree. Companies should allow and embrace cultures other than those of their founders. Not doing so is ignoring the issue. Yes, schools need to reform and a majority of the blame lies there well before SF companies have a chance.

Chromium, the open-source-only version of Chrome is also a viable option.

Update from usatoday http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/01/31/california-com... "

> He added, however, that the stern language in the cease-and-desist letters was designed primarily to get the operators' attention and that it was unlikely the bureau would be moving to shut them down as long as they made a good-faith effort to come into compliance.

> "We are trying to get them to become licensed," Heimerich said, adding that the agency has not received any complaints about the boot camps and learned about them from a staff investigator who saw them mentioned on a technology blog. "So if they are doing that, they fall to the bottom or close to the bottom of our enforcement priorities because there are many more serious threats to student consumers."

Stopping people from being ripped off. I am waiting to see if there were registered complains about these schools.