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MODS record for Chaucer life-records. A similar example from redbrick.net: http://z3950.loc.gov:7090/voyager?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&query=0670030643&maximumRecords=10&recordSchema=mods
The source for the example is rawbrick.net › articles › obtaining LC records through web services?
The rawbrick.net guy (gal?) might be worth networking with. According to rawbrick.net › about, he or she is a:
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26 year old dilettante now working and playing in Atlanta, GA. I'm employed as a librarian, but when I was little, I wanted to grow up and be a philanthropist. You can email me here.
Worked out example
I will use Rapid Application Development with Mozilla as an example. The ISBN of the book is 0131423436. Library of Congress brief record of McFarlane's book
MODS record of the book. Note the query=bath.isbn=0131423436. I figured out the syntax from looking at BruceDarcus' example (above) and the LC Online Catalog SRW/SRU Explain Record. The query language used is CQL. From CQL - Common Query Language - ZING (Library of Congress):
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CQL, the 'Common Query Language', is a formal language for representing queries to information retrieval systems such as web indexes, bibliographic catalogs and museum collection information. The CQL design objective is that queries be human readable and human writable, and that the language be intuitive while maintaining the expressiveness of more complex languages.
More relevant documentation:
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SRW Service Definition, which explains the three operations: searchRetrieve, scan, explain]
I will come back to look at xISBN (OCLC - Projects):
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xISBN is a library web service that supplies International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) associated with individual intellectual works represented in the OCLC WorldCat database. Give it an ISBN, and it returns a list of associated ISBNs.
