Open Library now has Works defined, and is looking to develop an API
for their retrieval. It makes obvious sense that when a Work is
retrieved via the API, that the data output would include links to the
Editions that link to that Work. Here are a few possible options:
1) Retrieve Work information (author, title, subjects, possibly
reviews, descriptions, first lines) alone
2) Retrieve Work information + OL identifiers for all related Editions
3) Retrieve Work information + OL identifiers + any other identifiers
related to the Edition (ISBN, OCLC#, LCCN)
4) Retrieve Work information and links to Editions with full text / scans
Well, you can see where I'm going with this. What would be useful?
kc
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