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WorldCat Basic API released
December 14, 2009 | 4:54 pm
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By Paul Biba
WorldCat is the world’s largest network of library content and services. By using WorldCat one can search through thousands of libraries for a particular book, CD, video, monograph etc.
The release of this new API will allow anyone to create apps and mash-ups using library data from WorldCat. Results are retrieved in RSS or Atom and the API will support up to 1,000 queries per day for non-commercial use. The API will provide, in addition to quesrions, indormation about books, videos and music, authors, titles, ISBNs and OCLC numbers, standard bibliographic citation formats, and more.
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Comments:
What does this mean:
I hadn’t realized those formats were defined in HTML.
This doesn’t sound good:
I’m sure there are many many reasonable searches which will return more than 100 hits. What if the hit you are looking for is in the tail, rather than the head?
And this:
Web applications? While that’s nice, it’s clearly for amateurs. EndNote or BibTeX would make more sense. Who is it that’s supposed to use this API?