On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Walker, David <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> >So, I would assume that the 2416076 record
> > was merged into the 24991049 record
>
> Or maybe this is an example of WorldCat's FRBR work set grouping at work?
>  I've been struggling to wrap my mind around this recently.
>


In this particular case I can confirm 2416076 was merged into the 24991049
record.

xiaoming





>
> --Dave
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> David Walker
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> California State University
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> From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Custer,
> Mark [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Google books js api, oclc/lccn, any problems?
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> I haven't noticed any problems like that myself lately, but I have had
> some trouble/confusion with OCLC numbers and GBS in the past.
>
> If you do a search for OCLC number 2416076 in worldcat.org, you get
> directed to the book:
>
> http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=no%3A2416076&qt=advanced  [which, of
> course, features no link to Google Books right now]
>
> but the OCLC number listed is 24991049, and no longer 2416076.  So, I
> would assume that the 2416076 record was merged into the 24991049 record
> (which was just recently updated on 2008-08-28), and so I would also
> assume that the records retained by Google would not reflect this
> update?  In any event, I would suspect that it might not be a problem
> with the GBS api, but rather with the change in metadata that is tracked
> by OCLC but not by Google (since they wouldn't have known).
>
> Do you have any other suspect examples, though, that might provide other
> evidence?
>
>
> Mark Custer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Jonathan Rochkind
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:04 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Google books js api, oclc/lccn, any problems?
>
> Anyone else noticed any problems with the GBS javascript api?
>
> It seems to have stopped returning hits for me for LCCN or OCLCnum,
> where it used to work. Seems to work now only for ISBN.
>
> Here's a URL call that used to return hits, and now doesn't:
>
> http://books.google.com/books?jscmd=viewapi&callback=gbscallback&bibkeys
> =OCLC%3A2416076%2CLCCN%3A34025476<http://books.google.com/books?jscmd=viewapi&callback=gbscallback&bibkeys=OCLC%3A2416076%2CLCCN%3A34025476>
>
> Jonathan
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> Jonathan Rochkind
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> The Sheridan Libraries
> Johns Hopkins University
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