On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Anthony Cole ahcoleecu@gmail.com wrote:
To cite a book just add the ISBN and page number. Leave it at that; or perhaps you could devise a bot that follows up, converting ISBN + page number into a full-blown reference.
Most of the time, I think your approach is good enough. But please don't assume that there is a bijection between books ("works") and ISBNs. * not all books have ISBNs (ISBN has been widely used from 1970s) * that ISBNs are *always* unique (publishers reuse them to save money)(yeah, I know) * you often have a different ISBN for the ebook, for the paperback, for the hardcover, of the same book etc. * right now, we don't really know how to consistenly works to their different editions and translations.
I'm simply stating that the reason we don't have Wikidata full of book records is a deep one.
Aubrey