[Eg-newdevs] Eg-newdevs Digest, Vol 56, Issue 1

[Tim Means]

Those are all good points!

Speaking of metarecords, I found out about SuperCat where you can query
Evergreen by ISBN and get a list of related records in XML format. I kinda
like it

--Tim

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 3:01 PM Terran McCanna <
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org> wrote:

> I would hesitate to attempt to build in an external search to retrieve
> matching titles based on ISBN (at least in the initial project) for several
> reasons - 1) anything involving 3rd party resources that may or not be
> available in all countries needs to be optional and configurable 2) the
> user may not actually want records with non-matching ISBNs, and 3)
> publishers have been known to re-use the same ISBNs for unrelated titles.
>
> I do think that it could be useful if the search had a metarecord search
> option so that the user could choose to retrieve the grouped
> formats/edition records if they wanted to.
>
> Terran McCanna, PINES Program Manager
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> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 2:45 PM Tim Means via Eg-newdevs <
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>> For an ongoing personal project, I want to try to start working on
>> Evergreen bugs from oldest to newest.
>> So I went looking for the oldest bug on launchpad and found "batch
>> searching <https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/520839>."
>>
>> Once I get my test server running on a spare laptop, I want to try to
>> write that batch search feature and test it.
>>
>> My questions about what we want in the feature, that I didn't see
>> discussed in the bug comments thread.
>> 1) If the specific ISBN is not found in the catalog, but a book of the
>> same title is in the catalog, do we want to present that title as a
>> positive search result?
>> 2) If the answer to #1 is yes, would we have to access a resource outside
>> of Evergreen like OCLC or even Google Books to get a title given ISBN?
>>
>>
>> --Tim Means
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