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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">No answer – just support for a solution…OCLC’s removal of the Classify API has impacted us, as well. We conduct collection assessments based on the LC call number and our cataloging unit had implemented a
nifty solution to regularly grab LC Call Numbers for resources for which we did not use the LCC system so that these resources could be included in our assessments. It wasn’t perfect – there was still about 1/3 of these items for which the LCC could not be
found, but it was an improvement. Now, we’re stuck. The cataloging staff are looking for solutions, but they do have other work to do.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I understand that cataloging community is peeved at OCLC for removing this without input from them.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Eril-l <eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 24, 2024 1:22 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [EXT] [Eril-l] APIs for getting an LC call number from an ISBN?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I am in the middle of a project with some CS students to write open source code to help librarians programmatically (not interactively) retrieve Library of Congress call numbers
given a list of ISBNs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Years ago I used the OCLC Classify API for this, but OCLC has really locked down their APIs so even though they have the data, they've made it nearly impossible for us to use it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">So I'm looking for more alternatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">So far I have the following APIs: Library of Congress, Harvard, Google, and Open Library. But my students are finding an unacceptably small number of matches on our sample ISBNs
using just those.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Do you know of any others that might work?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">By the way, one of the use cases for this is combining such lists with COUNTER usage data to be able to analyze institutional usage of ebooks by discipline. COUNTER data has no
subject classification, and the lists we get from vendors have inconsistent subject class systems that make them unsuitable for combining across all of our ebook vendors. And some ebook vendors don't provide proper LC call numbers (Springer, I'm looking at
you!) in their provided MARC records either. I have other use cases too, but this is the biggest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Aside from true APIs, if you know of any other kinds of servers like Z39.50 or SRU or anything like that that could also provide this data and doesn't require a paid account, please
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">It would have to be a "source" with at least a million books in it to be worth coding for though.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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