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xISBN improvements

Posted by: William Denton, 11 December 2008 7:23 am
Categories: OCLC

A couple of recent posts from Xiaoming Liu, the fellow who looks after xISBN and those other useful services from OCLC:

  • Support hathitrust.org in xOCLCNUM Service. “This feature is implemented in following way: a request can put an additional parameter ‘library=hathi’ in xOCLCNUM request, the service will only return records which [are] marked as free access in hathitrust.org.”
  • Better Hyphen Support in xISBN Service. “When requested ISBN is hyphenated, the response ISBNs will be hyphenated as well; we also added additional method of explicitly hyphenating ISBNs.”