Library Cataloging
Thom Hickey has some xISBN news. He mentions how it will handle ISBN-13 requests. It will convert them to the older format and then search. The ISBN change will impact plenty of services outside our catalogs aside from the xISBN service, Z39.50 for instance. It will be a while before it is all sorted out.
ISBN
- Xisbn Api
The api for xISBN that Xiaoming Liu previewed at the Code4Lib meeting is now officially launched and supported, and provisions for commercial use are now in place.For those of you who missed it, in addition to "related" ISBN's, xISBN will now also...
- Isbn Tool
The ISBN Links Generator will generate various links keyed by an ISBN. The list of links includes:Google "Look Inside"Amazon "Search Inside"Amazon.co.uk sales page (with affiliate code)Amazon Web Service Item InfoOU Library catalogue lookupOCLC Audience...
- Isbn Tool
On oss4lib the ISBN tool ISBN.pm was noted. This is a versatile tool able to perform these tasks:convert($isbn) Takes a 10 digit ISBN and returns the 13 digit equivalent. Does not perform any error checking or validation.gettype($isbn) Takes a string...
- Isbn
Some interesting work being based on the ISBN (soon to be EAN). The isbnsearch project isA distributed search portal of common sources of ISBN numbers, with permanent caching of results. To provide a open-source free interface for ISBN retrieval using...
- Isbn
The Frequently Asked Questions about changes to the ISBN page covers many questions, including:Why is the ISBN being changed?How is it that a 10-digit ISBN system can run out of numbers?What are the changes to the ISBN system?How does this change to a...
Library Cataloging
xISBN and ISBN-13
Thom Hickey has some xISBN news. He mentions how it will handle ISBN-13 requests. It will convert them to the older format and then search. The ISBN change will impact plenty of services outside our catalogs aside from the xISBN service, Z39.50 for instance. It will be a while before it is all sorted out.
ISBN
- Xisbn Api
The api for xISBN that Xiaoming Liu previewed at the Code4Lib meeting is now officially launched and supported, and provisions for commercial use are now in place.For those of you who missed it, in addition to "related" ISBN's, xISBN will now also...
- Isbn Tool
The ISBN Links Generator will generate various links keyed by an ISBN. The list of links includes:Google "Look Inside"Amazon "Search Inside"Amazon.co.uk sales page (with affiliate code)Amazon Web Service Item InfoOU Library catalogue lookupOCLC Audience...
- Isbn Tool
On oss4lib the ISBN tool ISBN.pm was noted. This is a versatile tool able to perform these tasks:convert($isbn) Takes a 10 digit ISBN and returns the 13 digit equivalent. Does not perform any error checking or validation.gettype($isbn) Takes a string...
- Isbn
Some interesting work being based on the ISBN (soon to be EAN). The isbnsearch project isA distributed search portal of common sources of ISBN numbers, with permanent caching of results. To provide a open-source free interface for ISBN retrieval using...
- Isbn
The Frequently Asked Questions about changes to the ISBN page covers many questions, including:Why is the ISBN being changed?How is it that a 10-digit ISBN system can run out of numbers?What are the changes to the ISBN system?How does this change to a...