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Connecting authors and books

December 7th, 2008 by

Seb Chan blogs about the fascinating possibilities opened by the OCLC connecting their WorldCat record of library holdings with their collection of info about authors (WorldCat Identities), and making it available via an API. (Via Hanan Cohen)

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  1. on 14 Dec 2008 at 1:07 am1 Steven Harris

    This could have a lot of handy applications. I hope the false matches Seb mentions can be worked out. If the API doesn’t work better than search at the WorldCat Identities site, there might be trouble.