Bibframe is a vocabulary which will enable the description of Works and
their Instances - for the purpose of this conversation a Bibframe Instance
approximates to a FRBR Manifestation.

The kind of service you describe would be one built upon such data.  It
could be a specific ISBN to Work id lookup tool or it could be a general
query tool such as a SPARQL server.  So the capability is there once the
data [encoded using the Bibframe vocabulary] is available in sufficient
quantity to make such a service viable.

If you are looking for unique Work identifiers (URIs) for related
manifestations - there are approximately 200 million of them available from
WorldCat.org.  Currently the best way to get one is by using the OCLC
Number associated with your manifestation.

As Peter points out you can get more information here:
https://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data/worldcat-entities/worldcat-work-entity.en.html

If you want to capture the exampleOfWork through code, the Linked Data
description of a manifestation is available in several serialisation forms,
not just html.   So for example http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889647468 gets
you html  http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889647468.ttl gives you Turtle,
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889647468.jsonld gives you JSON,
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889647468.rdf gives you RDF/XML and
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889647468.nt gives you triples any of which
you can parse to extract the exampleOfWork value from.

~Richard.

On 4 June 2015 at 14:35, Harper, Cynthia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thanks - I didn't know about it.
> Cindy
>
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> Boheemen, Peter van
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 9:33 AM
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>
> Maybe not 'the Bibframe way', but i guess the only existing service for
> that now would be the Worldcat Work description
>
> see:
>
>
>
> https://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data/worldcat-entities/worldcat-work-entity.en.html
>
> Peter
>
>
> ________________________________________
> Van: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> namens Harper, Cynthia
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> Verzonden: donderdag 4 juni 2015 15:12
> Aan: [log in to unmask]
> Onderwerp: [CODE4LIB] Bibframe and FRBRization
>
> I am fairly uninformed, but my understanding is that Bibframe is designed
> to allow distinguishing between work and manifestation as in FRBR.  Will
> there be some resource that we can send an ISBN for the manifestation, and
> get back a permanent unique identifier for the work? (I hope I've got my
> FRBR concepts straight)?   And if not now, when?  I'm in the
> thougt-experiment phase of planning a dataset that would be based on works,
> and looking for a good identifier for it.
>
> Cindy Harper
> E-services and periodicals librarian
> Virginia Theological Seminary
> Bishop Payne Library
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