Following on Dave's recommendation, you could also use Google Books' Data API [1]. Search for the book, get a structured ATOM feed as a response, presume the first hit is your book, and then follow the ATOM feed link for that books' metadata. It isn't going to be perfect; I'd be interested to know the end ratio of perfect versus missed matches.
Good luck, Kevin [1] http://code.google.com/apis/books/docs/gdata/developers_guide_protocol.html ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Caroline [dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 5:43 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Any web services that can help sort out this for me. what definition of large list 10,100,1000,..... yes google copy title part "Progress in Smart Materials and Structures" paste in google box press return first hit for the first line has the isbn, or you could script it and use the Open Library API and get the isbn back possibly Dave Caroline On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:59 AM, David Kane <dk...@wit.ie> wrote: > Hi, I have large amounts of data like this: > > <yawn> > Reece, P. L., (2006), Progress in Smart Materials and Structures, Nova > Ghosh, S. K., (2008), Self-healing materials: fundamentals, design > strategies and applications, Wiley > A.Y.K. Chan, Biomedical Device Technology: Principles & Design, > Charles C. Thomas, 2008. > L.J. Street, Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Technology, CRC > Press, 2007. > </yawn> > > ... one book per line. > > they are not in any order. > > I am lazy. So, is there a web service out there that I can throw this > stuff at to organise it for me and ideally find the ISBNs. > > Long shot, I know. > > But thanks, > > David. > > > -- > David Kane > Systems Librarian > Waterford Institute of Technology > Ireland > http://library.wit.ie/ > davidfk...@googlewave.com > T: ++353.51302838 > M: ++353.876693212 >
