Archive.org Integration

[adam]

Raj and Adam talked about this in SF in May. Raj said he would be dedicated to it when Doug was back...now doug is back and we should get into it. so I am reposting the summary Raj made to the list as a trac item
(adam)
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There would be two new services that booki.cc would provide, at the following URLs:

•  http://booki.cc/edit/IA/bookId.epub
•  http://booki.cc/download/IA/bookId.epub

(the actual urls could be different to fit with booki naming conventions)

The first url, /edit/IA/bookId.epub, would cause the booki editor to launch, pre-populated with an archive.org epub. The workflow would look something like this:

1 . Present log in dialog if user is not already logged in to booki.cc

2. Import IA epub, if this is the first time this book is being edited in booki
3. Open booki editor with the latest revision

The second url, /download/IA/bookId.epub, would cause a download of the latest version of the book in one of the following two ways:

1. If the book has already been cached in an archive.org item, then this service would issue a 302 redirect to something like

 http://s3.us.archive.org/booki-bookId/bookId.epub

2. If the latest version of the book hasn't been cached yet, booki would generate the epub for the user, and then cache it for subsequent requests.

From the IA side, we would add a two links to archive.org, one to download the corrected epub, and one to open the editor.

For example, for this book:

 http://www.archive.org/details/birdbookillustra00reedrich

In the list of available formats for download on the left, we would add "Corrected EPUB" below "EPUB". This link would point to
 http://booki.cc/download/IA/birdbookillustra00reedrich.epub

Elsewhere on the page we would have text that says "Please help us correct the OCR data for this book on booki.cc", which a link that points to
 http://booki.cc/edit/IA/birdbookillustra00reedrich.epub

What do you guys think?

-raj