Thanks, Dan. Remember: if you are not from an OCLC member institution,
there are limitations on the API. As I recall, less bibliographic data
is returned from the open API. OpenLibrary is open, so all of the data
is available.
kc
On 12/15/14 7:20 PM, Dan Scott wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:39 PM, David Rissenberg <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi, ____
__ __
I’m a developer and have been asked to put a function into an
application which would return bibliographic data using an OCLC
number (ISBN might also work). The end purpose of this would be to
create a bibliography for users with citations in MLA style. I’m
looking for the most direct way of accomplishing this and it looks
as though the Open Library API can do it but confirmation (or other
suggestions) would be most welcome. The users are advanced
humanities scholars so I imagine some of the items might be a bit
obscure.
It's not OpenLibrary's API, but since you mentioned OCLC numbers the
OCLC xID service might barely work for your needs for constructing MLA
citations, although starting from an OCLC number it seems to take two
hops; ISBN would be more direct.
Starting with OCLC number 154684429:
curl
'http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/oclcnum/154684429?method=getMetadata&format=json&fl=*'
returns:
{
"stat":"ok",
"list":[{
"isbn":["9780596515218",
"9780596529260"],
"owi":["owi67201841"],
"oclcnum":["154684429"]
}]
}
Then you can take one of the returned ISBNs and request that:
curl
'http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/9780596529260?method=getMetadata&format=json&fl=*'
which returns:
{
"stat":"ok",
"list":[{
"url":["http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154684429?referer=xid";],
"publisher":"O'Reilly",
"form":["BC"],
"lccn":["2007278140"],
"lang":"eng",
"city":"Sebastopol, Calif.",
"author":"Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby.",
"ed":"1st ed.",
"year":"2007",
"isbn":["9780596529260"],
"title":"RESTful web services",
"oclcnum":["154684429",
"234290815",
...
}
This is straight from the docs at
http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/web-services/xid-api/xstandardNumber-resource.en.html
With the OpenLibrary API, searching on OCLC numbers is going to be more
hit or miss; I'd suggest going with ISBN if you have them.
curl
'https://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:9780596529260&format=json&jscmd=data'
returns much richer data than you get from OCLC, too much to bother
pasting here. See the OpenLibrary API docs at
https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/books for more info.
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