IBList xISBN

By gollum — Last update May 5, 2008 — Installed 239 times.

Script Summary:
Finds related xisbn's using "labs.oclc.org". Script is still in development. Upgraded, with search and link features. Last update 20080506 - see notes.

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On an IBList book entry page i.e. bookxxxx.htm various editions/manifestations of a work are presented.

On occasion a Data Editor may wish to expand upon this list by searching for and adding more editions/manifestations.

This script attempts to ease the task of finding editions and book info.

Using an ISBN from the works manifest entries, retrieve known isbns from http://labs.oclc.org/xisbn/- Note: Some of these ISBNs may refer to non-english editions.

20080506 V1.4
bugfix - restoreFromCache sometimes muddled the search result icon placement - fixed.
bugfix - running getMetaData more than once would duplicate exisiting entries - fixed.

NEW - Added Amazon quick search icon - Title+Author
Update - Adjusted Worldcat search to search on Title+AUTHOR

NEW - Amazon page scrape - Note: this overwrites any existing search results.
Select one of the amazon sites to scrape - looks for matches on Title+Author
Function will search out every [English - Hardcover|Paperback|mmPaperback|School&Library binding] edition
Note: these default preferences can currently only be changed in the "scrapeAmazonPage" function.
Some false positives do sneak through, such as those titles with "title AND blah blah" or "title:blah" or "blah:title"

20080415 V1.3
When a site/meta search has been performed and the user navigates away from the page (i.e. to add a manifestation) the current isbn search status results are saved before leaving the page.
Clicking the disk icon (next to the search form icon) retrieves and updates the current isbn list from the saved cache

(unreleased change) V1.2
Convert any IBL(wem or backup) isbn-10 to isbn-13 before displaying in list
Always test for and include backuped isbn's
- previously would only test for backup isbn #'s if NO manifestations existed

20080321
If no Manifest isbn entry, use (if exists) Backuped isbn data as source.

Operation

Display the site-search form
Select an ISBN search site
- Choose to attempt a search on un-matched ISBNs or all ISBNs
  Note: The above has no effect when option get Meta-data is selected
OR select one the Amazon sites to search out all editions matching Title+Author
Press Go!