Library Cataloging
Some interesting work being based on the ISBN (soon to be EAN). The isbnsearch project is
- Xoclcnum
A new service from OCLC.I'd like to announce and invite you to try xOCLCnum, the latest in the xIdentifier family of Web services from OCLC. Just as xISBN allows you to find all related editions of a book by entering its ISBN, xOCLCnum does the same...
- Xisbn Service To Move
Eric Hellman has this announcement about the OCLC xISBN service.At about 4PM EST on Tuesday, February 13, a switch will be flipped, and traffic aimed at the experimental version of xISBN will begin to be routed to a replacement xISBN service supported...
- 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
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
Does anyone know of a tool to check a batch of ISBNs? I've found some ISBN checkers and validators that will take one ISBN and check it but how about 1000 or 10,000 run in batch mode? It would be nice to run the ISBNs in our catalog against a checker...
Library Cataloging
ISBN
Some interesting work being based on the ISBN (soon to be EAN). The isbnsearch project is
A 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 HTML, SQL or XML to be independent of any toolkits or software.Over at OCLC, the xISBN has the promise of becoming an indispensable service.
xISBN is a library web service that supplies International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) associated with individual intellectual works represented in the OCLC WorldCat database. Give it an ISBN, and it returns a list of associated ISBNs.This solves the problem of searching and getting no hits because LC has the hard cover and you have the paperback, which I find is all too common.This work will lead to cleaner catalogs and pave the way for a smooth transition to a FRBR catalog. We will have to clean up the ISBNs in our catalog if they are going to be used for these services. isbnck is a UNIX program to validate the check digits of ISBNs. A perl script to do the same is used as an example in a training course. Another, more versatile, perl script is lintallchecks. ISBN Java Class is an option for those who prefer that language. A XSLT validation document is a slick method to check the validity. Those working in Visual Basic might find this tool useful.They will also help our patrons. A tool like LibraryLookup would work much better if an xISBN service were queried before submitting the request to the local library. The Lookup Helper is also based on the ISBN.
- Xoclcnum
A new service from OCLC.I'd like to announce and invite you to try xOCLCnum, the latest in the xIdentifier family of Web services from OCLC. Just as xISBN allows you to find all related editions of a book by entering its ISBN, xOCLCnum does the same...
- Xisbn Service To Move
Eric Hellman has this announcement about the OCLC xISBN service.At about 4PM EST on Tuesday, February 13, a switch will be flipped, and traffic aimed at the experimental version of xISBN will begin to be routed to a replacement xISBN service supported...
- 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
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
Does anyone know of a tool to check a batch of ISBNs? I've found some ISBN checkers and validators that will take one ISBN and check it but how about 1000 or 10,000 run in batch mode? It would be nice to run the ISBNs in our catalog against a checker...