I'm not sure but VIAF does tie publications to the creators -- it's in the middle of the VIAF entry. Maybe that's what Gerard is talking about?
- Erika *Erika Herzog* Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>* On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 6:26 AM, raffaele messuti <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/04/17 11:31, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > Next week an API will become available at Open Library that provides > > their available books for an author based on their identifier. > > great! > > > What I have asked the OL is to provide their identifier per author, > > combined with the ISBN for an author. > > what do you mean for "ISBN for an author"? > > maybe you might be interested in this simple api wrapper[1] i made few > months ago. it combines OCLC Classify API[2] and the wikidata sparql to > get authors (and their viaf and wikidata id) from a book's ISBN. > > example: > > Concrete Island, JG Ballard > https://www.worldcat.org/title/concrete-island/oclc/934107293 > ISBN-13 9780007287048 > > $ curl https://isbn-authors.herokuapp.com/api/v1/authors/9780007287048 > [ > { > "name": "Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009", > "viaf": "9842556", > "wikidata_id": "Q140201" > } > ] > > > (note: the example api is hosted on heroku free tier, and is quite slow) > > > -- > [email protected] > > > [1] https://github.com/atomotic/isbn-authors > [2] http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/api_docs/index.html > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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