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The Distributed Library Project

The Distributed Library Project is a distributed library of people's books and videos. It is an experiment in creating community and sharing information. Users create accounts complete with bios and interest enumerations, then list the books and videos that they own. Those users are then free to browse the books that others have listed, sorted by proximity, interest, and book commonality. If a book or video is available, a user can check it out directly from the owner. There is an eBay-style feedback system for managing trust--users who return books on time get positive feedback, while users who damage books or return them late get negative feedback. These points create an overall "score" that lenders can use to judge the trustworthiness of a borrower. The system also supports user reviews, ISBN lookups, and collaboritve filtering.

Tags	Internet Web Dynamic Content Message Boards
Licenses	GPL
Implementation	PHP

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21 Feb 2004 22:00

Release Notes: This release provides support for 'music' as a media type, a Web-based installation/upgrade procedure, a 'recommended reading' feature, a removed dependency on 'register_globals', a 'new stuff' feature, a 'similar titles' feature, advanced search capability, a category administration tool, Spanish language support, and many minor bugfixes.

25 Sep 2003 04:32

Release Notes: This release features per-user language selection, a 'Your Status' page for all borrowed, loaned, and pending item information, a 'lost password' utility, the ability for users to edit their longitude/latitude, a basic administration page, distance information in the search results and status pages, a 'dlp_' prefix for all DLP database tables, internal password hashing, and other minor bugfixes.

0.4.1

05 Sep 2003 14:00

Release Notes: Full language templating support, French and German language translations, subdirectory installation support, fixes for geolookup bugs, reading lists maintain order, a 'remember me' login feature, ISBN lookup retrieves editor reviews, interests update correctly, and minor bugfixes.

27 Aug 2003 11:58

Release Notes: Major changes include reading list support, steps towards internationalization (support for non-US addresses, longitude/latitude translation, support for postal codes, non-US map links, etc.), EAN lookups, improved interest searching, common interests displayed in bold, working longitude/latitude lookups for the US, laserdisc media type support, and minor bugfixes.