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Random and not so random thoughts from Raymond Yee, primarily on the scholarly and educational use of the Web, libraries, educational technology, and information management

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Thursday, August 25, 2005

Linking to OCLC's Open WorldCat #

In What is a definitive URI for books? I stated that I wanted to:

Figure out how to link to the Open WorldCat system at OCLC, which is what the big players Google and Yahoo and other partners are doing. When can others play? Specifically, how I can programmatically generate the Open WorldCat link that corresponds to "Introduction to California Plant Life" whose ISBN is 0520237048. Now I can do a search on Google scholar and pull the URL for "Library Search" to get a working link....but I would guess that OCLC and/or google would not like others' doing so. (I may need to re-ask a previously posed question to Lorcan Dempsey.)

Lorcan wrote about exactly how to link to OCLC in Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: Book handles, pointing to Link directly to an ISBN/ISSN. I've made changes to the ScholarsBox and to the bookInfo.py script to support linking to Open WorldCat. See, for example, Introduction to California Plant Life

Posted by Raymond Yee on 8/25/05; 11:37:28 AM
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