On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
Yep, that's why I said the metadata returned from the OCLC xID service "might barely work for your needs", and the API limits are 1000 calls per day per IP address. So, depending on how many citations David needs to create, whether he is working with a library that is an OCLC cataloguing member (and can navigate the several different OCLC accounts and the API limit increase request process to bump the limit to 10,000/day), and how rich the resulting citations need to be, it may or may not work for his purposes. Perhaps a combination of both to fill in the respective gaps might work. Oh! And the article "Comparing the LibraryThing, OCLC, and Open Library ISBN APIs" (http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8715) might be of interest, too. It's about a year and a half old, so some things might have changed, but includes examples of the OpenLibrary query API as well. Anyway, the examples and the links to the full docs for both the OCLC and OpenLibrary APIs are all there. I'm interested in finding out what direction David decides to take.
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