David Goodman wrote:
OCLC will link together different printings, and in many cases even editions.
[...] There is no need for WP to figure this all out internally.
To my knowledge, though, the OCLC database itself is proprietary and available only to subscribing institutions, which somewhat complicates using it for our purposes, especially if Wikimedia's sites and their dependencies are to remain free-software/open-content. Is there some reasonable way around that?
-Mark