On Wed, February 2, 2011 8:29 am, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > Can you give us a broad overview of how many IA books with full text > have marc records, and how many don't, and what sorts of sources don't > have marc records?
This would be interesting data. > I have some old (pre-OL) code that searches for IA full text via ISBN > through a kind of crufty means. I am considering switching it over to > the OL api, but want to know how many hits I might be missing if I do that. While I cannot speak for the OL catalog team, I would guess that searching for IA text using the OL api would be much more effective than trying to use ISBN. Why? ISBNs didn't come into existence until 1966, and the vast majority of texts at IA (at least those accessible to the general public) will be those in the public domain, i.e. those published before 1923. If you try to search via ISBN you will get, at best, modern reprints of the classics. ISBNs might be a good way to find /catalog data/ about /modern/ books, but they are unlikely to lead you to full text (actually, the full text at IA is virtually unusable, but at least it would get you to the page scans). _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
