Thursday, October 16th, 2008
As a followup to my editions FRBR tool at BookChaser, I added two more tools:
a. Cover comparison tool - gets book covers by ISBN from four public services (LibraryThing, OpenLibrary, Amazon and Google).
b. Book API comparison tool - gets book information by ISBN from 7 public book APIs (Amazon, Google, ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
(This is a followup on an old post about a similar project using Amazon's API)
As I mentioned six months ago, one of the big things in the library world is FRBR which seeks to link all editions of the same book together. The OCLC offers their take on it as ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
While doing research for a book data project, I stumbled on an interesting discovery. One movement that has being gaining steam recently among librarians and others involved with book information is FRBR which among other things seeks to link various editions of the same book together. For example, all of ...
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