On 04/08/2014, Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > I wonder if this is something that Wikidata could (eventually) handle? > I have been hoping that one day all books (at least those with ISBNs) could > have a Wikidata entry. This would mean that all of the bibliographic
There is no point in duplicating other free databases which are already excellent. http://worldcat.org (by OCLC) has a free to use API, I've played around with it a little, and it can be integrated in with any tool. As well as all ISBNs, this includes OCLC numbers (duh) and other interesting bits and bobs like LCCN numbers that the Library of Congress uses. Yonks ago I wrote a greasemonkey script to scrape WorldCat entries which I used to insert or tidy up complex references in Wikipedia articles (this was before I hounded to death and resigned as an admin). The current editing interface on the English Wikipedia has the cite tool which effectively does the same thing if you put in the ISBN, so I have never been motivated to promote my script or repackage it as a user script. If someone wants to look at a copy during the hackerthon, I'll pass it on, though I'd recommend reading the WorldCat API documentation instead. http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/web-services/worldcat-search-api.en.html Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
