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find and fill isbn's (and other stuff too)
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:55 pm
by danzac
Jon, I was wondering if BE could utilize ISBNdb's api service to automatically lookup and fill in missing ISBN's in a database.
i'd love something similar for call numbers too, but don't know of a similar online service.
But, I'd like to see something similar for DOI's, and crossref does have an API service for looking up DOI's.
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:58 pm
by Jon
Hi,
I don't know anything about that service, I'd have to look into it.
As for doi's, there is a "look up reference by doi" (that is if you have the doi). I imagine you're asking for the other direction.
Jon
Sonny Software
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:02 pm
by msteffens
Jon wrote:As for doi's, there is a "look up reference by doi" (that is if you have the doi). I imagine you're asking for the other direction.
The CrossRef OpenURL resolver does now allow to fetch all basic metadata (i.e. those that are usually required to cite a journal article) including the DOI. This means that you can pass some bibliographic metadata (in form of an OpenURL) to the CrossRef resolver and retrieve all metadata for a matching record.
More info:
http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001624.html
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:51 pm
by danzac
Jon wrote:Hi,
I don't know anything about that service, I'd have to look into it.
As for doi's, there is a "look up reference by doi" (that is if you have the doi). I imagine you're asking for the other direction.
Jon
Sonny Software
ya, I'd love to have something like a "fetch in missing DOI's" menu item, ditto for ISBN's and LOC numbers.