No english documentation to my knowledge.

If you want to become a member of the EZB you pay a small fee for their 
infrastructure and their staff maintaing the database. It's around 500 
EUR a year. Very valuable!

I am not aware of an API that let's you synchronize holdings 
registration automatically. Intersting idea anyhow. But you may do an 
export of your holdings, so this may work in the other direction.

For a subset of the EZB members (for all those also using the ZDB) its 
is even possible to get in addition the availability of their print 
holdings.

I am Switzerland based and the ZDB is not open to the world unfortunately.

ZDB
http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB=1.1/

But the EZB is open to any library in the world. Weak point is the UI 
has a german bias (e.g. comments), although there is an english UI. But 
you can live with that, specially if you create your own application 
using the API.

Markus

Am 17.02.2011 18:10, schrieb Jonathan Rochkind:
> No documentation in English, huh? This is a very interesting service I
> had not previously been aware of, indeed quite powerful. It's free for
> libraries to register their own holdings with EZB? Even American libraries?
>
> Does the API by chance cover that registration of holdings too, so
> software could take holdings tracked in some internal database, and
> register them with EZB automatically?
>
> Jonathan
>
> On 2/17/2011 11:43 AM, Markus Fischer wrote:
>> Linking is dependent on the request and the technical possibilities of
>> the targeted publisher. Very often on article level.
>>
>> Were not possible on journal level.
>>
>> The things the EZB can't do is resolve identifiers like PMIDs, DOIs,
>> SICI numbers. But you can do that easily by writing your own application
>> or you my application I did write for this purpose:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/doctor-doc/ (use SVN for best results).
>>
>> The API of the services of the EZB/ZDB is located here:
>>
>> http://services.d-nb.de/fize-service/gvr/full.xml?sid=nameMe:myOrganisation&genre=article&issn=0392-4203&date=2004
>>
>>
>> You may extend that to article level (try another journal).
>>
>> Result 0 => free accessible
>> Result 1 => partially free accessible (fuzziness because of a not
>> specific request, e.g. missing year)
>> Result 2 => licensed
>> Result 3 => partially licensed
>> Result 4 => not licensed
>> Result 5 => Journal found, but the year specified is outside of the
>> published range)
>> Result 10 => unknown
>>
>> You'll find a german documentation here:
>>
>> http://www.zeitschriftendatenbank.de/fileadmin/user_upload/ZDB/pdf/services/JOP_Dokumentation_XML-Dienst.pdf
>>
>>
>> They state that you should contact the EZB/ZDB to register your sid
>> (Vendor-ID:Database-ID) if you want to use this service:
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Markus
>>
>> PS: the data of the EZB isn't available for download, as far as I know.
>> But the EZB is for sure one of the best things libraries ever have
>> achieved and maintain...
>>
>> Am 17.02.2011 17:25, schrieb Ross Singer:
>>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Jonathan Rochkind<[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Interesting, does their link resolver API do article-level links, or
>>>> just
>>>> journal title level links?
>>>>
>>>> I/you/one could easily write a plugin for Umlaut for their API,
>>>> would be an
>>>> interesting exersize.
>>> I think it would also be interesting to make the data available for
>>> download/reuse, if possible.
>>>
>>> -Ross.
>>>> On 2/17/2011 1:18 AM, Markus Fischer wrote:
>>>>> The cheapest and best A to Z list i know is the german EZB:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=en
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This list is maintained by hunderds of libraries. You just mark those
>>>>> journals you have licensed and that's it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not very widely known: they do also provide an API which you can
>>>>> use as
>>>>> a free linkresolver. There are free tools you can plug into this
>>>>> API and
>>>>> you've got your linkresolver.
>>>>>
>>>>> The list is incredible accurate and you'll have almost no effort: any
>>>>> change made by one library is valid for all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know if you need more information.
>>>>>
>>>>> Markus Fischer
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 16.02.2011 22:18, schrieb Michele DeSilva:
>>>>>> Hi Code4Lib-ers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want to chime in and say that I, too, enjoyed the streaming archive
>>>>>> from the conference.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I also have a question: my library has a horribly antiquated A to
>>>>>> Z list
>>>>>> of databases and online resources (it's based in Access). We'd
>>>>>> like to do
>>>>>> something that looks more modern and is far more user friendly. I
>>>>>> found a
>>>>>> great article in the Code4Lib journal (issue 12, by Danielle
>>>>>> Rosenthal&
>>>>>> Mario Bernado) about building a searchable A to Z list using
>>>>>> Drupal. I'm
>>>>>> also wondering what other institutions have done as far as in-house
>>>>>> solutions. I know there're products we could buy, but, like
>>>>>> everyone else,
>>>>>> we don't have much money at the moment.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for any info or advice!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Michele DeSilva
>>>>>> Central Oregon Community College Library
>>>>>> Emerging Technologies Librarian
>>>>>> 541-383-7565
>>>>>> [log in to unmask]