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ISBN2WP – Alpha Release

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20th August 2008

ISBN2WP – Alpha Release

Von: CH | Kategorie(n): Bibliothek &bull Web 2.0 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Druckversion |

History

Read the first thoughts about a plugin that sucks bibliographic data from library catalogues here and here (both German). Since it does a bit more than just connecting to a SRU service, I renamed it from ISBN2SRU to ISBN2WP. Another name change is very likely to come soon.

How it works

Just insert an ISBN into your posting:
[isbn]3-492-04549-9[/isbn]
The plugin grabs bibliographic data (Dublin Core) the Common Union Catalogue via SRU, adds a search link to GVK via SeeAlso (I currently use isbn2gso) and includes a OpenUrl COinS. The latter makes it easy to grab the bibliographic data with, for example by Zotero.

A short showcase…

First plugin, first screencast…

Update: The youtube clip is of rather poor quality. You can view the pure flash file here

To do

  • The COinS export is anything but perfect, and so is the presentation of the given Dublin Core metadata. Any ideas how to improve this, anyone?
  • I didn’t manage to include the wordpress options hook properly. Help!
  • Links to diverse services will be integrated (Scirus, Google Scholar …)
  • A bunch of other things. For example support for DOI, URN …

Download & Installation

  1. Extract isbn2wp (ZIP) and drop the folder “isbn2wp” into the plugins folder (/wp-contents/plugins/) of your Wordpress installation.
  2. Go to your Wordpress settings page and activate ISBN2WP.
  3. Start testing
  4. Leave a comment if you discover bugs or if you want to improve ISBN2WP.

Thanks

Thanks to Stefan, Meinhard, Lambert, Martin, Jakob, Patrick, Edlef and all the others who helped me with hints and cheats to build this draft of a useful plugin! This plugin appears by courtesy of the library of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover.

Licence & Disclaimer

  1. GPL
  2. This plugin works – somehow. It’s absolutely not perfect, I made no security testings and I guarantee absolutely nothing. Have fun!

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  1. 1 Silke Dinklage am August 20th, 2008:

    The Video is not really useful. ;)

    posted on August 20th, 2008 at 20:43 Uhr

  2. 2 Jakob am August 20th, 2008:

    Where is this Testblog or another live installation to see it in practise?

    posted on August 20th, 2008 at 22:34 Uhr

  3. 3 CH am August 20th, 2008:

    @Silke: The Youtube file conversion decreased the quality. I’ll try to make a new video or maybe better some screenshots.

    @Jakob: Until now it’s only installed locally.

    posted on August 20th, 2008 at 23:35 Uhr

  4. 4 lsi am September 6th, 2008:

    it would be better with other languages support, but thanks..

    posted on September 6th, 2008 at 19:25 Uhr

  5. 5 CH am September 8th, 2008:

    Language support will be added soon. At least I hope so.

    posted on September 8th, 2008 at 12:08 Uhr

  6. 6 OpenBook WordPress Plugin: Open Source Access to Bibliographic Data » Infobib am September 29th, 2008:

    [...] wäre die Arbeit an ISBN2WP wohl weitgehend überflüssig und wird folglich [...]

    posted on September 29th, 2008 at 11:32 Uhr

  7. 7 antiquarian books am Dezember 11th, 2008:

    Great site. Thanks… :)

    posted on Dezember 11th, 2008 at 7:13 Uhr

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