/library-lookup-extension

Hackathon Montreal 2011 - Why pay for a book while it is free in the library? This Chrome Extension will tell you the status of the book if it is available in the book store.

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Montreal Open Data Hackathon (Nov 2011)

We wanted to do something interesting and helpful with the newly released library data: a 1GB tab-separated flat file with 4.5M records of 19 fields.

We decided to build a browser extension which would augment the web pages of online book stores to display library availability of the books shown.

We implemented a Chrome extension for the book store Renaud-Bray.com but other browsers (e.g. Firefox) and book stores (e.g. Amazon.ca) could follow.

We also implemented a small web service to query library availability by ISBN; ideally this would be replaced by an official web service for accessing live data.

This repo includes only a sample of the data: ISBNs 3829062699, 0385333536, 9748279804, 9782800101019, 9782800101095.

You can find the original data here:
http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/fiche-donnees/catalogue-bibliotheques

We had a great time and hope you find this hack useful.

Alexis Brunet
Rod Dunne
Enrique Hotes
Marc Lepage
Mohamed Mansour