Library Cataloging
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 return metadata such as title, edition, language and publication year that can be used to distinguish manifestations of a work. xISBN supports a RESTful API, as well as OpenURL and UNAPI, and can return results in a variety of formats.xISBN is free for non-commercial, low volume use.
- Worldcat Hackathon
WorldCat Hackathon is the impetus for some tool development. From OCLC comes this noticeWe added a few more features in this month's xID deployment, hopefully it could be useful in upcoming WorldCat Hackathon.support LCCN query such as: http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/lccn/2004273129?fl=isbn,lccnsupport...
- Xissn Web Service
OCLC has announced a companion to the xISBN service, the xISSN Web Service.The xISSN Web service supplies ISSNs and other information associated with serial publications represented in WorldCat. Submit an ISSN to this service, and it returns a list of...
- 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....
- 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
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...
Library Cataloging
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 return metadata such as title, edition, language and publication year that can be used to distinguish manifestations of a work. xISBN supports a RESTful API, as well as OpenURL and UNAPI, and can return results in a variety of formats.xISBN is free for non-commercial, low volume use.
- Worldcat Hackathon
WorldCat Hackathon is the impetus for some tool development. From OCLC comes this noticeWe added a few more features in this month's xID deployment, hopefully it could be useful in upcoming WorldCat Hackathon.support LCCN query such as: http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/lccn/2004273129?fl=isbn,lccnsupport...
- Xissn Web Service
OCLC has announced a companion to the xISBN service, the xISSN Web Service.The xISSN Web service supplies ISSNs and other information associated with serial publications represented in WorldCat. Submit an ISSN to this service, and it returns a list of...
- 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....
- 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
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...