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xID updates at OCLC

Posted by: William Denton, 21 October 2008 7:24 am
Categories: OCLC

I met Xiaoming Liu at Access 2008 earlier this month. He works on xISBN, xISSN, xOCLCNUM, xTHIS and xTHAT from OCLC. It was nice to finally be able to talk to him in person after reading his e-mails for so long.

He sent mail to xidentifier-l with some updates about the services last week: