Bookpedia > chinese search
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:38 pm
First, thank you very much for Bookpedia, that's a great application.
I've been trying to search for chinese books for while now without any success. It would be great to implement the search for the two "amazon like" sites in Asia (mostly for China/Taiwan, HK, Singapour, Macao, Japan and Korea).
1) http://www.books.com.tw
2) http://global.yesasia.com
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I noticed yesasia was implemented in DVDpedia as mentionned elsewhere on the forum (thttp://www.bruji.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=489 ... ght=search).
Since I don't have DVDpedia, I don't know how it had been implemented but I guess you parse to english version of the website search page. In this case, all the information retrieved use romanization instead of original sinograms. For instance, if we try to search for the ISBN 9576965500 on both english and chinese versions :
english version : http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.as ... 1003563034&
chinese one : http://global.yesasia.com/b5/PrdDept.as ... 1003563034&
one can use the language icon on the top of the search page to switch to desired language.
english speaking persons would only use romanization of the informations , but chinese speaking one would like to use genuin chinese.
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http://www.books.com.tw is far better than the previous, but unfortunately is only available in chinese. If needed, I may help you to translate in case you decide to add it to Bookpedia.
I show the application to some of other scholar here in my University who would for sure buy it since the Endnote export function is already available.
PS: I've tried to add asian z39.50 servers without any success. cf. my other post here : http://www.bruji.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4769#4769
I've been trying to search for chinese books for while now without any success. It would be great to implement the search for the two "amazon like" sites in Asia (mostly for China/Taiwan, HK, Singapour, Macao, Japan and Korea).
1) http://www.books.com.tw
2) http://global.yesasia.com
----1-----
I noticed yesasia was implemented in DVDpedia as mentionned elsewhere on the forum (thttp://www.bruji.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=489 ... ght=search).
Since I don't have DVDpedia, I don't know how it had been implemented but I guess you parse to english version of the website search page. In this case, all the information retrieved use romanization instead of original sinograms. For instance, if we try to search for the ISBN 9576965500 on both english and chinese versions :
english version : http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.as ... 1003563034&
chinese one : http://global.yesasia.com/b5/PrdDept.as ... 1003563034&
one can use the language icon on the top of the search page to switch to desired language.
english speaking persons would only use romanization of the informations , but chinese speaking one would like to use genuin chinese.
----2----
http://www.books.com.tw is far better than the previous, but unfortunately is only available in chinese. If needed, I may help you to translate in case you decide to add it to Bookpedia.
I show the application to some of other scholar here in my University who would for sure buy it since the Endnote export function is already available.
PS: I've tried to add asian z39.50 servers without any success. cf. my other post here : http://www.bruji.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4769#4769
Having a yeasia plug-in for DVDpedia might help us to create one for Bookpedia, and we will look into doing that. However we have plans to make the plug-in architecture much more friendly for our users to be able to write their own.