Bookpedia > chinese search

[azastorr]

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

[Conor]

Thank you for the detailed information. It will help us a lot if we write the plug-in. Unfortunately not knowing Chinese makes writing a Chinese site plug-in extremely complicated for us. As we need to understand how to best parse the information, this is hard to do when you can't even read the information. 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.

[franktopia]

I can read and write chinese. Bookpedia is a great help, and I can help to build the plugin if you need any help.

Thanks