RE: WorldCat xISBN

[Eric Hellman <eric@openly.com>]

Crossref DOI's are intended to identify articles at the "work" 
level, so in principle, there is not a need to relate DOi 
identifiers to unify a work. In practice, of course, this is not 
always true.

We are working on a service that will relate ISSNs; I'm hesitant 
to say anything more until things are more definite.

Eric


At 10:44 PM -0400 5/27/07, Sally Morris \(Morris Associates\) wrote:
> Wouldn't it be interesting to be able to do the same for journal
> articles?
>
> Sally Morris
> Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy)
> Email:  sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Hellman
> Sent: 14 May 2007 22:44
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Subject: WorldCat xISBN
>
> Development and Support for xISBN and related "xIdentifier"
> services are being done by my group here in New Jersey...
>
> Eric
>
> FOR MORE INFORMATION: Bob Murphy +1-614-761-5136 murphyb@oclc.org
>
> WorldCat xISBN service enhances search results with associated
> forms of individual works in WorldCat
>
> DUBLIN, Ohio, May 11, 2007-The WorldCat xISBN service, the OCLC
> service that supplies International Standard Book Numbers
> associated with individual intellectual works represented in the
> WorldCat database, is now also available for commercial and
> high-use applications.
>
> The WorldCat xISBN service, which began as an OCLC Research
> project, is a machine-to-machine service that supplies ISBNs and
> other information associated with an individual work in WorldCat,
> the world's richest database for discovery of items held in
> libraries. It has been a supported service, available at no
> charge for individual, non-commercial use, since February.  It is
> now also being made available for commercial and high-use
> applications (more than 500 requests per day) via subscription.
>
> The xISBN service helps a user find a resource when an ISBN
> assigned to any printing or edition of the work is known.  Users
> submit an ISBN to the service to return a list of related ISBNs
> and selected metadata.
>
> "The ability to automatically expand ISBN queries to include all
> editions of a work will help users find the information they
> need," said Robin Murray, Vice President, OCLC Global Product
> Management. "The xISBN service is another example of OCLC's
> commitment to finding new ways to make the WorldCat database work
> for our users." ISBNs are related to each other using
> librarian-cataloged bibliographic records in WorldCat together
> with an algorithm that implements the FRBR model for information
> objects that brings together multiple versions of a work.  The
> FRBR model keeps WorldCat users from having to browse numerous
> records that represent many different manifestations of a
> book-such as different printings, hardcover or paperback
> editions, audiobooks or film versions, for example-and brings
> them together under one record.
>
> The WorldCat xISBN service is 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.  Among the uses of the WorldCat xISBN service:
> to identify a book from an online bookseller to determine if that
> book is available at the user's library; to confirm that no
> alternative versions of a work are available before a library
> sends an interlibrary loan request; to use a single search to
> check holdings of all editions of a work before making a
> selection for acquisition. More information about the WorldCat
> xISBN service is available on the OCLC WorldCat Web site:
> <http://www.worldcat.org/affiliate/webservices/xisbn/app.jsp>.
> Send e-mail to xisbn-support@oclc.org for details about
> subscriptions.
[SNIP]

Eric Hellman, Director
OCLC Openly Informatics Division
eric@openly.com