On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Emily Lynema [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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available. I have to admit it seems odd to me to include so much
attribute information in a single isbn element, but I suppose that
would be helpful in identifying what specific manifestation is being
referred to in
/details/biodiversity into
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
Chris
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Tim McCormick
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] musing on oca apiRe: [CODE4LIB] oca
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Date:Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:05:41 -0500
From:Jodi Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: musing on oca apiRe: [CODE4LIB] oca api?
Great idea, Tim!
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On Mar 7, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Emily Lynema wrote:
Also, there was discussion about building an Open Library API (to
enable
some cool integration with wikipedia), and I suggested a that
libraries
using an API would want the search results to include information
about
whether the title has a
I see a whole lot of not invented here syndrome from IA, honestly.
They seem to want to re-invent everything themselves, rather than try to
use existing conventions. Even if they come up with something slightly
better than SRU, is it worth the pain to developers who would like to
implement
I want to be able to pull all the
records that have oclc numbers, issns, isbns, etc. I want it to be
lightweight, fast, searchable.
Would anyone else want/use such a thing?...
I like the idea, but in the long term, I just don't know how useful
this will be. By and large, these
Kyle Banerjee wrote:
I like the idea, but in the long term, I just don't know how useful
this will be. By and large, these identifiers are designed for dead
tree resources.
Only time will tell, but it's what we've got now, and I don't see our
existing legacy records going away. So we will
Kyle Banerjee wrote:
I want to be able to pull all the
records that have oclc numbers, issns, isbns, etc. I want it to be
lightweight, fast, searchable.
Would anyone else want/use such a thing?...
I like the idea, but in the long term, I just don't know how useful
this will be. By
Nope. ISBN was created in 1966. LCCNs exist for many resources
published before 1966. Even after 1966, not every single item that may
have been cataloged by the Library of Congress was neccesarily assigned
an ISBN by it's publisher
All true. What I meant was that _if_ an isbn exists
Tim, I think this is a fantastic idea and the only suggestion I would
make is to make sure you get on the Open Library developers list (I'm
looking for the URL... I'll email when I find it unless someone else
beats me to it) and discuss this there. (You may already have done
this, I don't know.)
Howdy folks,
I've been playing and thinking. I'd like to have what amounts to a unique
identifier index to oca digitized texts. I want to be able to pull all the
records that have oclc numbers, issns, isbns, etc. I want it to be
lightweight, fast, searchable.
Would anyone else want/use such
I would absolutely want and use such a thing.
I don't know of anyone else doing that, although I have been thinking
about it too (but don't really have time to do much with it). The
approach and issues you have identified matches what I've been thinking,
and I don't have much additional to add.
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