[dvdvol] new web forms and new disc images

[Scott Schmucker]

I once wrote a program that used PHP and a programming interface known 
as PHP/YAZ to query the library of congress database for book 
information automatically.  This was for a used textbook sale operated 
by my university, but a similar approach would go a long way to helping 
to automate this process.

- Scott

Marcello Perathoner wrote:

> Aaron Cannon wrote:
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>> I actually have had similar thoughts.  The biggest hurtle to creating 
>> the new images is the catalog.  Anything we can do to improve it is 
>> going to make compiling new isos that much easier.  Although, I must 
>> say that it has come a long way since last year.  Whoever has been 
>> maintaining it has been doing an incredible job!
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>> I'm not sure how familiar with the situation you are, but do you 
>> happen to know how this information was gathered in the first place?  
>> Did we just look it up on the LOC web site or is it more involved 
>> than that?
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> I think Alev used the LoC site to get subject and LoC class 
> information. This was all done manually and at a certain point she 
> wasn't able to keep up with the increasing flood of new books. Subject 
> and LoC class information is available until around ebook 8000 and 
> only very sparsely afterwards.
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