Quoting Jakob Voss <jakob.voss_at_GBV.DE>:
>
> Right. The only usable work identifiers that I know of are LibraryThing
> Work identifiers and some Wikipedia articles about works - and this
> identifiers work very well (if they exist for a given work)!
There will soon be Open Library identifiers for works, and hopefully
an API that
will retrieve the related manifestation identifiers (which I guess
will have to be everything that exists for the manifestation: ISBNs,
OCLC numbers, LCCNs, and Open Library identifiers.)
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Received on Fri Nov 06 2009 - 12:25:46 EST