On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:14 AM, James Bridle <
[email protected]> wrote:


> One problem we run up against frequently is that while it's trivial to get
> the OL ID for a given ISBN, it's harder for other identifiers - such as
> Amazon ASINs.
>

Amazon ASINs (and plenty of other types of 3rd party identifiers) can
currently be added to editions - but do you mean that it's hard/impossible
to do the reverse-lookup via the API?  If so, +1 to that request.


> Would OL consider building a DB of different IDs for works, to enable
> harmonisation?


Are there many other third party ids for works? The only other one I can
think of is a Wikipedia URL - but that's perhaps a link rather than an ID?
(though again it'd be useful to be able to do reverse-lookups from links).
 Most ids seem to be at the edition level.

Cheers,

F

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