Re: ISBNs as publisher identifiers

From: Karen Coyle <lists_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:09:47 -0700
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Thanks, Tomasz - even though in Polish it's pretty easy to see what data 
is there. This is pretty nifty -- Again, some fodder for an eventual 
publisher entity.

kc

Kalata, Tomasz wrote:
> The National Library in Warsaw has created something similar for Polish
> publishers. To my knowledge it's not in any way integrated with their
> catalog, just stand alone database (heads up: site in Polish)
>
> Database:
> http://tinyurl.com/mql2a8
>
> record for a publisher:
> http://tinyurl.com/m8mcqv
>
> Tomasz Kalata
> t.kalata_at_brooklynpubliclibrary.org
>
>   
>> Wikipedia has lists of publisher codes and publishers for the 
>> 0 and 1 lists, which is what OL started with.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_group-0_ISBN_publisher_codes
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_group-1_ISBN_publisher_codes
>>
>> I don't know how they came up with these, or if we could 
>> "discover" the other ranges from the bib data itself.
>>     
>
>
>   


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