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Does anyone know if OCLC is recommending an alternate solution that will provide the same or at least similar functionality? I had played around with the Worldcat Discovery API when it was in beta but am not sure of its present status or if its the most logical replacement for xID. Brian ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Eric Hellman <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 1:31 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OCLC shutting down xISBN and xID (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Matching print and electronic editions of the same book) Users of xID services would be wise to check the termination clauses of their usage agreements to see whether they are permitted to keep and reuse the data they have cached. Think about it. The world outside of 43017 has invented all sorts of new techniques to update and maintain metadata cooperatively. Eric Eric Hellman President, Free Ebook Foundation Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/ https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ twitter: @gluejar