internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary

Can my website collaborate with OL and send back corrected book information?

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Description

### Question

Is OL able to provide the team at GRead (gread.fun) with a way to automatically send cleaned data back to OL?

### Additional context

The website uses OL's API as the first source for book information (we have other APIs that we use as backups), we manually review and fix issues with the data, such as incorrectly capitalized titles, incorrect author names, missing page counts, etc., and we would like to send the corrected data back to the OpenLibrary. We appreciate the API, and we would like to help make the database at OpenLibrary better. We spend countless hours improving our website, our database of books, and the user experience.

In short, we retrieve data from OL, it often has issues, we fix them manually, and we would like to actually send the corrected information back to OL in order to improve it.

Also, could we get a mention on the list of websites/services that use OpenLibrary data? We need the users, and we have recently launched an iOS app and an app for Android (the Android app is not developed as often).

### Issue resolution criteria

Whenever you guys want, I guess. I'd like to find out a way to help before the issue is closed.

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