On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:22 PM, James Bridle < [email protected]> wrote:
I hadn't realised that, or at least didn't think it was a core attribute of > a work. That might be what I'm talking about. > > There certainly aren't many ASINs on OL at the moment (small, random sample > admittedly), and a stated policy might change that. > From http://blog.okfn.org/2010/11/10/opening-up-library-records-at-the-open-library/ : "One of the other major design decisions we made was, instead of trying to fight over the One True Identifier for a book, that we would begin to collect identifiers. Today, you can hit the Open Library API with ISBN10 /13, LCCN, Internet Archive IDs, or OLIDs, and find records. By adding as many identifiers as we can find to our records, the idea is that Open Library could begin to serve as a sort of “concordance service,” where you could hit it with, say, a Hathi Trust ID, and get a list of all the other IDs Open Library knows about for any one edition. To date, we’ ve written about 4 million Good Reads IDs into the system, and are working right now on a similar volume for LibraryThing." I'm sure George can tell us more about progress on this? Perhaps a script could use the existing ISBNs to add a few more Amazon ASINs to the database? Although, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Standard_Identification_Number, all ISBNS are valid ASINs (but not vice versa)? Being able to add third party identifiers for works would be great. I can't currently see a way of doing that? Frankie -- Frankie Roberto Experience Designer, Rattle 0114 2706977 http://www.rattlecentral.com
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