1. Download (see descriptions below)
Download files at archive.org/details/bahai-library-offline-database.
Or download torrent file: bahai-library-offline-database_archive.torrent. [version 2024-09, 200 MB]
See also files downloads.
2. About
- All documents are either public domain; posted with permission of author, editor, or publisher; or can be classified "fair use." If you see content that may infringe on a copyright, email us.
- The database is saved in three formats: .sql, .csv, and .json. It can be imported into any database program. It includes separate tables for the Chronology and Chronology Canada. Column names have been changed, for additional security.
- Most of the site is also at archive.org under archive.org.../bahai-library.com, and a recent save was made in April 2024 as archive.org.../bahai-library.org.
- If you don't already have a BitTorrent client I recommend uTorrent, Transmission, or BitTorrent Web — all work on Windows and Mac — or Folx for Mac.
3. Some possible uses
- Anyone with "valuable" or unique content they don't want lost (e.g. historical photos, scans of manuscripts, autobiographies) can send it to me for inclusion in the torrent.
- In the late 1990s, people made CD-ROM copies of the bahai-library.com filesystem to share with friends in countries with limited internet access. This stopped being possible when the collection became too large for any CD or DVD, and when the content was migrated to a database. Now, the database or parts of the entire collection (e.g., just the PDFs or just the audio) can be shared on a flash drive or USB stick or converted into a spreadsheet.
- The data will no longer be tied to a single owner on a single server, and hence can be preserved. This is important because websites can simply disappear overnight: some can fail accidentally, like from a failed hard drive, or they can disappear due to circumstances beyond the owner's control.
4a. List of tables
TABLES
AUTHORS
CATALOGUE (the actual content)
CHRONOLOGY
CHRONOLOGY-CANADA
COLLECTIONS
TAG-TYPES
TAGS
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4b. Descriptions of fields in main table, 'catalogue'
- ID # of document
- AUTHORS-ID - see names in 'authors' table
- CONTRIBUTORS-ID - see names in 'authors' table
- AUTHOR-1 last name - this and the following 15 fields will be replaced by ID #s
- AUTHOR-1 first name
- AUTHOR-1 last name as published - if different
- AUTHOR-1 first name as published - if different
- AUTHOR-2 last name
- AUTHOR-2 first name
- AUTHOR-3 last name
- AUTHOR-3 first name
- AUTHOR-4 last name
- AUTHOR-4 first name
- EDITOR-1 last name
- EDITOR-1 first name
- EDITOR-1 job - editor, translator, compiler
- EDITOR-2 last name
- EDITOR-2 first name
- EDITOR-2 job - editor, translator, compiler
- LANGUAGE 1, 2, or 3 of current edition
- LANGUAGE 1, 2, or 3 of first edition
- FILE-NAME - web link
- PUBLISHER-CURRENT - this edition
- PUBLISHER-FIRST - first edition
- CITY-CURRENT - city of publisher, current edition
- CITY-FIRST - city of publisher, first edition
- DATE-PUBLISHED first edition - YYYY-MM-DD
- ISBN - current edition
- ISBN-13 - current edition
- ISBN - first edition
- DATE PUBLISHED - current edition
- COLLECTION 1, 2, or 3
- VOLUME
- TITLE-CURRENT - current edition
- TITLE-FIRST - first edition
- TITLE-PUNCTUATION - things preceding the title which would hinder alphabetization, like ` or "
- SUBTITLE - current edition
- TITLE-PARENT - journal or book containing this document
- PAGE-RANGE
- PAGE-TOTAL
- CROSS-REFERENCES - by URL
- AUDIO-LINK - if any
- EPUB-LINK - if any
- HISTORY - scanned, typed, proofread, etc
- POSTED-DATE
- POSTED-BY
- PERMISSIONS
- ABSTRACT - blurb
- NOTES
- CONTENT - the actual document, excluding the above meta-data
- VIEW-COUNT - hits
- LAST-EDIT - date
- DOI - Digital Object Identifier
- OCLC - Online Computer Library Center
- TAGS - referenced by ID numbers; see 'tags' table for text
- INVENTORY - any reference number for loom.loomofreality.org
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