The Biblioteca Francisco Pereira de Moura is now in the library list. It works, although I don't know what the coverage will be like. Probably not great for most of your needs.

I also found a lot of UNIMARC-based libraries (see http://zzz.porbase.org/view/targetList.d...). Some day I'll get them to work, but UNIMARC is so different from MARC21, that it will take all sorts of backflips.

Thanks for the first portuguese library. I'm hoping some other can be added soon! :)

Alguém sabe algo mais detalhado sobre a Biblioteca Francispo Pereira de Moura ?

Tim,

Unware of the existence of this topic I just posted this http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph.... Were you guys able to look into any of the other sources on the list? It would help a lot. Biblioteca Francispo Pereira de Moura is not that good on the fiction side.

Mensagem editada pelo seu autor, Fev 14, 2007, 4:11am.

Dear Tim,
Some time ago i mailed you and Abby something like this:
"Hi
I'm a Portuguese user of your website (user name: escalla), and I've noticed you do not have a single catalog source in the Portuguese language.
I have contacted Maria Margarida Lopes (i can mail you her address again) of our National Library (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal http://www.bn.pt/) to know if their catalog used the Z39.50 Protocol that LibraryThing uses to access other libraries, she has confirmed that their catalog should be in conformity and has shown interest in including the national catalog in the list of sources for LibraryThing.
Would you then be interested in adding the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal as a searchable source in your website?"

Just reminding you of it! :)

Cheguei apenas há uns dias a esta biblioteca virtual e deparei que os grupos de língua portuguesa estão quase todos calados e inativos.
Esta última msg da escalla fez-me confusão não ter tinho resposta. O que é que se passou? Alguém me sabe explicar?
Aquele abraço?

Recently we've gotten a couple of requests for more Portuguese sources, in particular Porbase and Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. I have spent hours and hours of time trying to get those sources to work and have been unsuccessful. Sorry.

Porbase encodes accented characters in a non-standard way. I cannot find any information on the web about what character encoding they are using. I manually tested every character encoding I've ever heard of, and none of them were correct. So we can search against their system, but the data we get back is useless.

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal returns zero search results no matter what you search on. There isn't any error message from their server, just no results.

I would love to get these sources working, but it's not possible at this point.

Mensagem editada pelo seu autor, Jul 14, 2008, 9:01pm.

caseydurfee: Does this help? www.crxnet.com/leaf/docs/MRAD-1_BN_1_0.pdf

Mensagem editada pelo seu autor, Out 14, 2008, 6:41pm.

is it possible for us to have access to the full texts of the books we find here?

or is this site just a place to talk about the books without having the texts?

E se contactássemos todos nós a equipa do LibraryThing para lhes propor, já não a base de dados de livros da Biblioteca Nacional -- que pelos vistos é incompatível com o LT -- mas as bases de dados de livrarias portuguesas em-linha, como a wook, bertrand.pt, ou a livrarialeitura.pt?

Chamo ainda à atenção que o http://bookworms.sapo.pt usa justamente a base de dados da livraria em-linha wook.pt, com excelentes resultados.

As sugestões de fontes de informação bibliográfica podem ser feitas no wiki do LibraryThing, em http://pt.librarything.com/wiki/index.ph.... Quanto à Biblioteca Nacional, tenho andado em contacto com eles e, espero, já consegui os parâmetros correctos do seu serviço Z39.50, pelo que agora é só esperar que alguém no LibraryThing visite a página que referi...