Hickey on xISBN
Seems like not a week goes by when I don’t mention Thom Hickey or Lorcan Dempsey, two big cheeses at OCLC. Today, I point out xISBN and Stable Identifiers by Thom Hickey, posted a couple of days ago in response to that code4lib thread on xISBN. At the bottom he adds this:
By the way, if anyone else plans to do a harvest like this, please let us know ahead of time (as Ben did), and try not to hit the server too hard. We seem to be able to support multiple hits/second, but we’ve never load tested xISBN, and the system it runs on is running out of capacity (we should have a replacement up in a few weeks).
That’s nice of them: if you want to look up xISBN results for every book in your catalogue (thereby finding other manifestations of the same work), you’re welcome to, but please ask in advance so they know you’re coming.