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 -- Frankie Roberto Experience Designer, Rattle 0114 2706977 http://www.rattlecentral.com
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