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Abstract:
Download the Bahá'í Library databases. Download direct from archive.org, or by BitTorrent.
Notes:
See also the offline archive of all files and content, designed for local browsing on your own computer, without Internet access.

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Database

2013/2020/2024

Contents
  1. Download
  2. About
  3. Uses
  4. Table and Column list

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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

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
METADATA (contact us to help add metadata)
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