xISBN v2 available
OCLC’s Eric Hellman announced that the new version of xISBN is up. The API documentation for xISBN explains it all and has lots of examples. It’s a nice improvement over the first version and has lots of new options.
Xiaoming Liu, also of OCLC, gave a short talk about this at the Code4Lib conference in Georgia in February. It was recorded, and the videos are online: go to the Code4Lib 2007 Lightning Talks page, browse down the Wednesday talks, and choose whichever of the “xISBN Update” links you prefer.
As you know, Bob, if you give xISBN an ISBN, it will return a list of ISBNs of other manifestations of the same work. LibraryThing’s thingISBN does the same thing, but people decide how to group things into works, instead of algorithms, as at OCLC. Both have been the subject of much discussion here lately. They’re both very useful and work very well together.