Hi
I'm on the hunt for products/tools/toolsets that might help me visualise bibliographic data in a fun-rather-than-academic kind of way, creating different ways to browse and investigate a list of between 200-2,000 individual book titles.
In my dreams I'd like something that could use a list of ISBNs to pull back a set of cover thumbnails which could then be thrown onto a map by place of publication, a timeline by year of publication, or even arranged by colour of the cover (I can dream).
It looks like the Google Books api can do pull back some of that kind of data, but it also seems heavily biased towards directing people to previews of the books (not necessarily something I'd want to do)
Any help by way of examples of things like this, APIs that might make this doable, telling me I'm mad etc, much appreciated.
Thanks
Danny
Danny Birchall
Web Editor, Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Trust
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