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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