In thinking about using worldcat.org as a bridge to a works record, I'm wondering about using 'experiment.worldcat.org', e.g. http://experiment.worldcat.org/oclc/841051199.jsonld as an easy way to get the work id. I'm having trouble finding out any info about exactly what 'experiment.worldcat.org' is. Is it likely to be around for a while? Is it up to date and just reformatting the www.worldcat.org data??? Anybody know?
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Terry Reese <ree...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the best replacement at this point as a single API is to look at > Librarythings api though I'm not sure if it would work in all cases -- > otherwise, I think using worldcat.org as a bridge to their works records > probably is your best bet. > > --tr > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Brian Riley > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 5:14 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OCLC shutting down xISBN and xID (was Re: > [CODE4LIB] > Matching print and electronic editions of the same book) > > Does anyone know if OCLC is recommending an alternate solution that will > provide the same or at least similar functionality? > > I had played around with the Worldcat Discovery API when it was in beta but > am not sure of its present status or if its the most logical replacement > for > xID. > > Brian > > ________________________________________ > From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU> on behalf of Eric > Hellman <e...@hellman.net> > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 1:31 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OCLC shutting down xISBN and xID (was Re: > [CODE4LIB] > Matching print and electronic editions of the same book) > > Users of xID services would be wise to check the termination clauses of > their usage agreements to see whether they are permitted to keep and reuse > the data they have cached. > > Think about it. The world outside of 43017 has invented all sorts of new > techniques to update and maintain metadata cooperatively. > > Eric > > > > Eric Hellman > President, Free Ebook Foundation > Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/ > https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ > twitter: @gluejar >
