At 4:41 PM -0400 5/9/07, Godmar Back wrote:
>On 5/9/07, Eric Hellman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>We've studied our logs pretty carefully. Most of the sites that have
>>exceeded the limit we set were commercial sites doing bulk harvest.
>>
>>You can track the xISBN use by LibX by getting an affiliate id.
>>
>
>LibX is a client-side tool. We're not a user of xISBN, we provide
>clients who have installed it the option to use xISBN.

I know, and I had to explain that to the legal department!

>
>Also, keep in mind that an important reason to use OCLC's xISBN
>service - rather than using an alternate service or using the data
>directly - is Jeff Young's OAI bookmark service, specifically the
>know-how he's put into searching multiple catalogs and his keeping a
>database of which library uses which catalog. That, as I understand,
>is still not part of the officially supported xISBN, though.

We will improve on that service...
--

Eric Hellman, Director                            OCLC Openly
Informatics Division
[log in to unmask]                                    2 Broad St., Suite 208
tel 1-973-509-7800 fax 1-734-468-6216              Bloomfield, NJ 07003
http://openly.oclc.org/1cate/      1 Click Access To Everything