xISBN
At a glance
- A machine-to-machine service that supplies ISBNs and other information associated with an individual work in WorldCat; submit an ISBN to the service and it returns a list of related ISBNs and selected metadata.
- Ideal for Web-enabled search applications, such as library catalogs and online booksellers; enables an end user to link to information about other versions of a source book.
- An example of a new class of services being offered by OCLC to help increase the visibility of information from WorldCat wherever it might be needed.
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The xISBN service supplies ISBNs and other information associated with an individual intellectual work that is represented in WorldCat. Submit an ISBN to this service and it returns a list of related ISBNs and selected metadata.
Ideal for Web-enabled search applications—such as library catalogs and online booksellers—and based on associations made in the WorldCat database, xISBN enables an end user to link to information about other versions of a source work.
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