I presume you've all seen xkcd on this topic?

http://xkcd.com/927/

Tim

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:31 PM, George Oates <[email protected]> wrote:
> We did some bulk updates via a few bots for Goodreads, Library Thing and 
> OCLC. They aren't being updated, sadly, though that's something we'd 
> obviously be very interested in setting up.
>
> There's more information about writing Bots for Open Library here:
> http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bots
>
> ...and we've had informal discussions with several groups including BNF, DNB 
> and Hathi about doing something similar.
>
> Cheers,
> george
>
> PS - Tim - if you have any good ideas about how to make this an ongoing 
> process with LT, I'd love to try to set that up!
>
> PPS - We're just adding these identifiers to our search engine too (and 
> eventually the web UI), so people can hit SOLR instead of the DB externally 
> to query for metadata - much faster.
>
>
> On Jul 27, 2011, at 8:50 PM, Tim Spalding wrote:
>
>> OpenLibrary programmers made the Goodreads linkages. LibraryThing sent
>> Goodreads a list of the IDs at some point and they integrated them.
>>
>> T
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Ed Summers <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I noticed that the OpenLIbrary API makes GoodReads and LibraryThing
>>> IDs available. I was wondering when/how these linkages were made, and
>>> if they are being updated at all. Thanks for any information you can
>>> provide!
>>>
>>> //Ed
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