I'm not sure but VIAF does tie publications to the creators -- it's in the middle of the VIAF entry. Maybe that's what Gerard is talking about?
- Erika
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On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 6:26 AM, raffaele messuti raffaele@docuver.se wrote:
On 01/04/17 11:31, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Next week an API will become available at Open Library that provides their available books for an author based on their identifier.
great!
What I have asked the OL is to provide their identifier per author, combined with the ISBN for an author.
what do you mean for "ISBN for an author"?
maybe you might be interested in this simple api wrapper[1] i made few months ago. it combines OCLC Classify API[2] and the wikidata sparql to get authors (and their viaf and wikidata id) from a book's ISBN.
example:
Concrete Island, JG Ballard https://www.worldcat.org/title/concrete-island/oclc/934107293 ISBN-13 9780007287048
$ curl https://isbn-authors.herokuapp.com/api/v1/authors/9780007287048 [ { "name": "Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009", "viaf": "9842556", "wikidata_id": "Q140201" } ]
(note: the example api is hosted on heroku free tier, and is quite slow)
-- raffaele@docuver.se
[1] https://github.com/atomotic/isbn-authors [2] http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/api_docs/index.html
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