[CODE4LIB] Early Bird Registration for Red Island Repository Institute

2008-04-28 Thread Paul Pound
Apologies for cross-posting: Register now for The Red Island Repository Institute on Prince Edward Island - August 11-15, 2008. Register by May 16 and reserve your spot at the Fedora-focused Repository Institute on Prince Edward Island, one of Canada’s premiere travel destinations known for its

[CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs

2008-04-28 Thread Godmar Back
Hi, for an investigation/study, I'm looking to obtain a representative sample set (say a few hundreds) of ISBNs. For instance, the sample could represent LoC's holdings (or some other acceptable/meaningful population in the library world). Does anybody have any pointers/ideas on how I might go

Re: [CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs

2008-04-28 Thread Andrew Nagy
When playing around with OCLC's XISBN service, I plugged in the isbn number for one of the gone with the wind books we have at our library - it returned something like 150 similar isbn numbers. You could try doing that for a few items. Just an idea ... Andrew -Original Message-

Re: [CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs

2008-04-28 Thread Godmar Back
Hi, thanks to everybody who's replied with offers to provide ISBNs. I need to clarify that I'm looking for a sample of ISBNs that is representative of some larger population, such as all books cataloged by LoC, or all books in library X's catalog, or all books sold by Amazon. It could be, for

Re: [CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs

2008-04-28 Thread Tim Spalding
You can get a compete list of the ISBNs on LibraryThing—about six months ago, but hey—from this page: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/LibraryThing_APIs Then you can grab random ones. T On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, thanks to everybody