[KS] DB of Korean Classics

[McCann, David]

"set up their site so that..." probably assumes more intent than was  
present in the decision to go with software that does not allow easy  
access to Mac users.  It's a problem I dare say we have all  
encountered here or there in the Korean studies world.  Macs don't  
always speak the language of PC.

And 'webmasters'?  Really?

Sounds like a good plot for a movie!

David McCann


On Jan 17, 2012, at 11:41 PM, Charles Muller wrote:

> Mårten Söderblom Saarela wrote:
>
>> As a Mac user, I'm constantly frustrated by the DB of Korean  
>> Classics.
>> Does anybody know of a way to either harvest all the material on the
>> site (text and images; I've tried SiteSucker but it didn't work) and
>> build an private database, or some other place where one can download
>> the facsimiles of the munjip?
>
> While the idea of "harvesting all the material" from a site using
> such apps as SiteSucker may sound attractive to end users, I can
> tell you that as a maintainer of a few large data sites, the usage
> of such applications on our sites causes considerable headaches,
> clogging up our servers, making it less useful to honest users.
>
> If the webmasters of the Korean Classics set up their site so that
> you can't download the whole thing en masse, they probably had a
> good reason to do so. I suggest that you acknowledge their right to
> manage their site as-is.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chuck
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