Re: [PHP] Book database (slightly OT)

2002-01-30 Thread Erik Price
On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 11:38 PM, Boaz Yahav wrote: > Why not simply look the ISBN up in one of the big online shops and take > the data from there? > Amazon? B&N? > > It all depends on what you will do with the data I guess... > A good idea, but if you're running a commercial site of

RE: [PHP] Book database (slightly OT)

2002-01-29 Thread Boaz Yahav
sage- From: Egon Schmid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Steve Edberg Subject: Re: [PHP] Book database (slightly OT) From: "Steve Edberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Perhaps the Library of Congress?? >

Re: [PHP] Book database (slightly OT)

2002-01-29 Thread Egon Schmid
From: "Steve Edberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Perhaps the Library of Congress?? > > http://www.loc.gov/z3950/ > > You could hack the web interface, but it would be more efficient to > query the database directly using the Z.39.50 stateful protocol: see > > http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html#abo

Re: [PHP] Book database (slightly OT)

2002-01-29 Thread Steve Edberg
Perhaps the Library of Congress?? http://www.loc.gov/z3950/ You could hack the web interface, but it would be more efficient to query the database directly using the Z.39.50 stateful protocol: see http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html#about and http://www.niso.org/sta

RE: [PHP] Book Database

2001-07-09 Thread Chris Lott
The Library of Congress web site is good for that sort of thing. You can search for an ISBN and have returned a formatted MARC record/etc which is fairly easy to parse. I don't have code anymore, but I did exactly this at one time. c > -Original Message- > From: Reuben D Budiardja [mailt