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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: openlibrary</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/openlibrary.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-04-28T00:55:18+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>A new leaf.</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/28/kewlchops/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-04-28T00:55:18+00:00</published><updated>2009-04-28T00:55:18+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/28/kewlchops/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://george08.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-leaf.html"&gt;A new leaf.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
George Oates is now heading up the Open Library project at the Internet Archive. Sounds like a perfect match.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/george-oates"&gt;george-oates&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/internet-archive"&gt;internet-archive&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openlibrary"&gt;openlibrary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="george-oates"/><category term="internet-archive"/><category term="openlibrary"/></entry><entry><title>ThingDB</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/17/about/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-07-17T10:21:55+00:00</published><updated>2007-07-17T10:21:55+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/17/about/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://demo.openlibrary.org/about/tech"&gt;ThingDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Another extensible key/value pair data store, constructed for the Open Library based on Aaron Swartz’s Infogami technology.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aaron-swartz"&gt;aaron-swartz&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/infogami"&gt;infogami&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openlibrary"&gt;openlibrary&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/postgresql"&gt;postgresql&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python"&gt;python&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/thingdb"&gt;thingdb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="aaron-swartz"/><category term="infogami"/><category term="openlibrary"/><category term="postgresql"/><category term="python"/><category term="thingdb"/></entry><entry><title>About Us (The Open Library)</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/16/about/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-07-16T23:40:33+00:00</published><updated>2007-07-16T23:40:33+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/16/about/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://demo.openlibrary.org/about"&gt;About Us (The Open Library)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
I’m a complete sucker for massively ambitious “make the world a better place” projects. Let’s hope this one has legs.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openlibrary"&gt;openlibrary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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